Citizendium

Wikipedia is known for being a rich source for information on thousands of topic. Due to its open source format, pages consist of information from a medley of sources. With that, some information is lost from each specific source, as not all the contents of each source can be included on a page. For my investigation, I looked at Wikipedia’s page for Cattle. I have always been interested in the animal, as cows are my favorite, but I never took the time to actually learn about it. When I was reading the page, the first fact that caught my attention was that according to the Washington Post, “In 2009, cattle became one of the first livestock animals to have a fully mapped genome.” (Brown, 2009) Considering cows have been around for so long, this wasn’t much of a surprise, it was still interesting. Upon reading the article, I discovered that cows have roughly 22,000 genes. This caught my attention, as I never realized that despite coming across as fairly boring, the cow is a very complex animal on the inside. I found this information to be very worthy of a mention on the cow Wikipedia page. Another piece of information from the Wikipedia page that I was interested in was that “In laboratory studies, young cattle are able to memorize the locations of several food sources and retain this memory for at least 8 hours, although this declined after 12 hours.” (Wikipedia, 2017) This was fascinating, as I didn’t know cows had the ability to remember things at all, so to learn they could…

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