banteng
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Origin of banteng
< Indonesian Malay banténg < Javanese banṭéng
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Three other species have been cloned for conservation: a Przewalski’s horse named Kurt, and two types of Southeast Asian cattle under threat, the gaur and the banteng.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 11, 2022
That drawing depicts a four-legged animal that Dr. Aubert suspected was a species of wild cattle called a banteng.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2018
Combining the evidence from this stencil and the banteng image, it’s possible that people started making art in the Borneo caves sometime between 52,000 years ago and 40,000 years ago.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2018
Zoos treat cloned males, which can pass along only nuclear DNA to future generations, as valuable “bridges” of pure banteng DNA to the banteng gene pool.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2014
We saw plenty of the fine race of domestic cattle descended from the Bos banteng of Java, driven by half naked boys, or tethered in pasture-grounds.
From The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 by Wallace, Alfred Russel
But cloned female bantengs, with their baggage of cow mitochondrial DNA ready to be passed to their offspring, are deemed valueless hybrids.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2014
The first occasion, in 1919, was to restrict debate on the Treaty of Versailles; the second, in 1926, on the World Court debate; the third, last week, on the McFadden-Pepper branching banting bill debate.
From Time Magazine Archive
She begins the day very resolutely, and if you are her husband you want to avoid irritating her or upsetting her, because hell hath no fury like a woman banting.
From Cobb's Anatomy by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
The other day I heard a woman say that she had got to begin banting.
From Penguin Persons & Peppermints by Eaton, Walter Prichard
She confessed to banting, but drew the line at anything more exhausting.
From A Fool and His Money by McCutcheon, George Barr
In case of persons troubled with an excess of fat, the bath must be accompanied by massage, banting, and a liberal indulgence in outdoor exercise.
From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by McCarty, Louis Philippe
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