{"id":127645,"date":"2021-09-13T23:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T06:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/scientists-are-potty-training-cows-in-a-bid-to-help-save-the-planet"},"modified":"2021-09-13T23:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T06:22:19","slug":"scientists-are-potty-training-cows-in-a-bid-to-help-save-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/scientists-are-potty-training-cows-in-a-bid-to-help-save-the-planet","title":{"rendered":"Scientists are potty-training cows in a bid to help save the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-potty-training-cows-in-a-bid-to-help-save-the-planet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The results showed that calves performed at a similar level to children when learning to potty-train, and did better than very young children.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If you can potty-train a child, you can potty-train a cow. At least, that was the theory a group of researchers in Germany decided to test, in a bid to find a solution to the environmental damage caused by livestock waste.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s usually assumed that cattle are not capable of controlling defecation or urination,\u201d said Jan Langbein, co-author of a study published Monday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/fulltext\/S0960-9822(21)00966-0\" target=\"_blank\">the journal Current Biology.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Farmed cattle produce roughly 66\u201388 pounds of feces and 8 gallons of urine each day and are free to relieve themselves where they please. However, the spread of their waste into the soil can have negative effects on the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results showed that calves performed at a similar level to children when learning to potty-train, and did better than very young children. If you can potty-train a child, you can potty-train a cow. At least, that was the theory a group of researchers in Germany decided to test, in a bid to find a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}