Advanced Nature Study (now with splicing!)

Younger offspring did not, to my knowledge, watch of listen to the State of the Union address wherein President Bush called for legislation prohibiting the creation of human-animal hybrids. Indeed, it's not even clear that this wee beastie has any human DNA in it. (With recessive traits, it can be hard to tell.) Yet it's hard not to think this specimen is treading on ethically dangerous ground:

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Younger offspring's explanation of this image, plus an image from Elder offspring that calls out for your interpretation, below the fold.

According to younger offspring:

It's part cow and part rooster; it's a MOOSTER. In the morning it says, "Cock-a-doodle-MOO! Cock-a-doodle-MOO!"

In contrast to the "mooster", there seems to be at least good circumstatial evidence that the bovines pictured below are "manimals" of some sort. But what are they doing?

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Not unlike a certain Dilbert cartoon in which the boss made someone dance for their paycheck.

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