The Trip to the LegenDAIRY Institute...

     Hooorayy! Our class has finally gone for a field trip outside of town! Our classmates and us went to U.P. Los Banos, Laguna on the day of February 4, 2011 for our Science class led by Teacher Rye, of course. Why you ask? Well, he wants us to learn more on plants and animals. He likes to give his students a good vision and working on topics on different kinds of organisms. Why did we join the field trip you ask? Well, of course for fun and learning. But even more for the experience :D Of course, since this was a field trip, we wanted and expected for it to be a great learning experience for the gurus. I'm sure we were all excited to go somewhere out of the town and to meet a new place in the Philippines before this great experience happened!
     
     Now, the first site we went to for our field trip was, the Diary Training and Research Institute OR we can just call it shortly as DTRI. Here, we expected to learn how to milk cows and of course how cows grow up. And, that is exactly what happened! We got to see cows and learn where the sperm of male cows go, how to milk cows, what they eat to grow well, and where the milk is processed! Here first is a picture of one of the things DTRI workers use there to help them in their work. The item on the left-most is something they use for keeping the male cow's semen where they put in a container. The item on the second from the left is a model of how the milking part of the cow looks like. And finally, the two items on the right are microscopes for viewing some specimens that are really small. Here is the picture! 

     After going through all these lectures and visuals, we were finally treated to some milk in a little dairy shop in DTRI's premises. It was neat. Well here is an organism we got to find in DTRI's territory:

1. Name of Organism: 

• Common name: Cow/ cattle
• Scientific name: Bos taurus
• Taxonomic classification:       

          Kingdom: Animalia
          Phylum: Chordata
          Class: Mammalia
          Order: Artiodactyla
          Family: Bovidae
          Genus: Bos

          Species: taurus

   2. Characteristics:

        a. Has black and white/brown spots all around its body.

        b. Has four teats which produces milk.

        c. Has hooves for feet.

   3. Ecological Relationship:

• Ecological role: Herbivore
• Ecological relationships with organisms: It's relationship with grass is predation.
• Description on this relation: The cow predates on grass in fields to gain a healthy diet.

     And finally! Here is a picture of this amazing creature, the cow:

We'll be posting soon on the other sites we visited in UPLB.

So just you wait! 

                                                                              -The Science Gurus