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Kazumaru

Nexia Biotechnologies has mixed genes from orb spiders and goats. Yes, Canada has given the world goat-spiders.

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Good job, guys.

Sauce: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/889951.stm

Somefreakoverthere · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:37 am Post subject:

Whoo. Spider-goats.

Dau'pay, you are awesome. Please bring us something else bizare to cheer about.

Maraha · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:16 pm Post subject:

Fascinating. What will they think of next? Spider-pigs? Spider-men? No no, that's just silly...

Danikat · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:53 pm Post subject:

One thing that will be interesting is seeing how aracnaphobics react to this.

Personally I can't stand touching spider web even if I know for a fact there isn't a spider anywhere near it, and I'm not even that bad compared to some people.

Judging by my reaction to that article knowing that the webbing actually came from a goat and has never been anywhere near a spider might not help, as silly as that sounds.

But maybe we'll all get used to the idea and it won't bother anyone after a while.

Just hope it works better than Dolly did.

Kazumaru · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:31 pm Post subject:

Of course it will, it's Canadian. Razz

CrazyD · Yellow Belt Old Friend Posts: 574

I am a canadian.
and I didnt even hear aboot this
spider pig thing.
Till now.

3kul · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject:

Probably because it's a spider-goat, not a spider pig.

Disappointing that they only altered it to produce silky milk (how the hell is that going to work anyway Confused

), I was really looking forward to seeing some freak of nature stuff here.

Interesting to hear that spiders are too anti-social to farm though, I never knew that.

Danikat · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:27 am Post subject:

I don't understand why they couldn't just keep them seperated.

Most pet shops keep their spiders stacked in a relatively small space and it's fine because they're in seperate boxes so they can't get to each other. If the boxes had opaque sides they wouldn't even know there were other spiders around.

And aside from that I'd have thought many species would make perfect farming animals, they live in relatively small areas, eat pretty infreqently and freely produce the material they'd be farmed for throughout their lives.

Of course they might get pissed off with their webs being constantly destroyed but as long as they use a species thats not harmful to humans it should be fine.

addman · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:02 am Post subject:

Danikat · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:58 pm Post subject:

Because it really should have been done before now:

Spider-goat, spider-goat,
Does whatever a spider-goat does,
Can he swing from a web,
No he can't,
He's a goat.
Look out!
He is a Spider-goat!

That is all. You may now go about your business.