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Dec 2021
23m 55s

The moo loo and other stories

Bbc World Service
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<p>Training cows to use the toilet and a bouncy castle that fights climate change are some of the surprising solutions today. Humans have been training animals like dogs and horses for centuries. But how easy is it to train a cow? Well scientists in New Zealand and Germany have been successfully training cows to use a special latrine. The cows get a rewar ... Show More
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