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Numbers 1,2,4 and 7. I don’t know what country...

1. Not sure which part is bothering you. How else are dairy cows in Australia inseminated? x 

2. Here you can find information on just how soon you can wean calves to save costs. It also says that if you do it too early they will require extra attention - that is if you actually want them to survive. Not really a problem if your business is in dairy and the calves are not needed - in which case there is no point in wasting milk on them since they're going to become veal.

4. "Most farmers milk their cows twice a day, but in a robotic milking system cows sometimes choose to be milked four to five times a day." x

"Cows with a result of greater than 200,000 are highly likely to be infected on at least one quarter. [...] Milk with an SCC of more than 400,000 is deemed unfit for human consumption by the European Union."  x

Yes, I have been to the Melbourne Aquarium! I used to work for a tourism company that operated inside it.

There are a lot of positive and negative points about the aquarium.

Positive - they do a lot of research for Victorian sea life, they’ve rescued and released a lot of animals, and were the first in the world to ever breed Weedy Sea Dragons in captivity for wild release, which are a threatened species.

However, I still question a lot of their exhibits. Currently they are housing a 4ft? “Mega Croc”, and the exhibit is woefully small. On top of that, I don’t like the Penguin enclosure at all, I think it’s tiny. I also heard that all the penguins were inbred because it’s illegal to acquire them from the wild so captive populations are very small in terms of genetic variety. Also some other co-worker told me they had never seen the sun before, but I don’t know how accurate that is.