Are cows pickier than goats? Answers from innovative large-scale feeding experiments from 275 years ago

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Sep 19, 2024, 2:30 pm123 pts
For his 18th century thesis, Carl Linnaeus collected 643 different plant species that were then fed to horses, cows, pigs, sheep and goats. The results were carefully compiled but not analyzed until now, 275 years later, when they were also published in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

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Are cows pickier than goats? Answers from innovative large-scale feeding experiments from 275 years ago

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