Horsey driverless cars and competitive cloning
Unexpected Elements
BBC
4.4 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The sight of horses running wild in a city leads panellist Tristan Ahtone in Helsinki to rethink how we rate horses' welfare, Chhavi Sachdev in Mumbai tells the story of the country that is cloning the Lionel Messi of horses for sport and presenter Marnie Chesterton finds out why roboticist Eakta Jain is studying horses to engineer better relationships between humans and autonomous vehicles. All that, plus the slippery record for the world's biggest snake, how the alphabet came to be and asteroid forcing scientists to reiterate 'it will not hit Earth'.
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| 0:21.6 | The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession. |
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| 0:45.4 | And it turns out that this place, Aldeney had its own breed of cow, now extinct. |
| 0:51.6 | They were all eaten during the Second World War. |
| 0:56.2 | But even those weren't the true Aldenie cow. They were cross-bred with the cows next door from the island of Guernsey. The |
| 1:01.3 | original cows were small and didn't produce much milk. Then there was a population explosion in the |
| 1:06.7 | 1860s, meaning people needed more from their cows, hence a cross-breeding and possibly, |
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