Castration is any process that causes an animal to lose reproductive viability. The term is used for humans and many animals, often referring to an intentional surgical or chemical process, but also to accidental loss of function. There are many different methods of castrating an animal, and man...
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In 1941 Charles Huggins and Clarence Hodges published the first report indicating that castration or treatment with estrogen in men with metastatic PCa caused a decline in the serum marker acid phosphatase.4 Both treatments had the known effect of lowering serum T, and it was concluded that T ca...
“Where there was a tongue, now there is a useless penis, a double castration and silencing. Putting flesh in the mouth also suggests that the enemy can be eaten. Cannibalism makes the soldier strong at the attacker’s expense.” So this was, in a way, the embalmer expressing her opinion...
Other important aspects of cattle animal husbandry includedehorning and castration. This allows the “stock” to be safely transferred to the “market”. You may notice that this language is still used on Wall Street bettors today. According to a 2009 study in North America, the average weight...
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Humans want different things, individually and collectively, and I claim that bracketing this by imagining that the main part of the problem is not turning everything into paper clips is a major mistake. I have seen way too much hand-waving about this and it doesn’t do this community any...
including inter-male aggression and sexual aggression, may not be completely suppressed and may persist for years following castration of a super-male. It is possible that this explanation accounts for the 10 percent failure rate of neutering in male cats in suppressing all sexually dimorphic behavi...
Castration makes them more docile and easier to manage for work. 5 Which is heavier, a cow or an ox? It depends on the breed, but oxen, being work animals, are often more robust. 5 Are "bullock" and "ox" the same? Mostly. In many regions, "bullock" refers to a young ox. 4 ...