Normally having eyes glued to your ass would be a workplace no-no, but this new technique is a real life-saver down at the farm (All images courtesy of UNSW Sydney; photo by Ben Yexley) A joint study ...

Botswana will vaccinate cattle within 40 km of the South African border in Zones 9 and 10 under a revised foot-and-mouth disease control strategy. FMD outbreaks have suspended disease-free status in ...

Botswana has put restrictions on the movement of cloven-hoofed animals in the northeast of the country after an incursion of buffalo from Zimbabwe put cattle at risk of contracting possible ...

A herd of cattle grazing across Botswana with large painted eyes on their rumps may sound unusual, but the idea came from a practical conservation problem. Across many parts of Africa, livestock ...

Want to save cattle from predatory attacks? First, paint eyeballs on their butts. Then see what happens. That's pretty much the gist of a new study out of Botswana—and it worked, Happy Mag reports.

Girolando cattle arrive as BDC scales dairy ambition. The second consignment of Girolando dairy cattle arrived in Botswana on ...

In terms of the food chain, cows don't rank very high. In Botswana, top predators like lions and leopards take regular bovine meals, frustrating farmers and prompting them to take aim at lions to try ...

A conservation biologist at Australia’s University of New South Wales said in July that his team was headed to Botswana to paint eyeballs on cows’ rear ends. It’s a solution to the problem of farmers ...