calves
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In the 1870s, a Pend d’Oreille Indian named Walking Coyote captured a few bison calves from northern Montana.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Accounts described elephants selecting particular plants when they seemed unwell, and mothers reportedly giving medicinal plant material to their calves.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The observation adds to the small number of documented cases involving deceased calves in baleen whales.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
The last documented California grizzly killed was hunted down in August 1922 by a Tulare County rancher named Jesse Agnew, who blamed his dead calves on the grizzly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Laura was afraid that Pa must kill one of the little calves in the barn.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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