Linnaeus collected 643 different plant species that were then fed to horses, cows, pigs, sheep and goats. The results were carefully compiled but not analyzed until now, 275 years later.
Are cows pickier eaters than goats? To answer this question, Carl Linnaeus collected 643 different plant species that were then fed to horses, cows, pigs, sheep and goats. The results were carefully compiled but not analysed until now, 275 years later, when they are also published by the Linnean Society in London.
Although the thesis was translated into German and English and was known among contemporary botanists in Europe, the results were never analysed. Now, however, Rydin has worked with other researchers to compile and analyse the data. The thesis contains numbers and references to Flora Svecica, Linnaeus' list of Swedish flora. According to the researchers, this was one of the first times Linnaeus used the now common naming convention, which has also allowed them to identify the species involved in the experiments.
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