Heifer – a cow that has not borne a calf, or has borne only one calf. In North America, a typical farm has about 100 milk cows and as many young female stock called heifers. The heifers are raised as replacement cows.
The Aral Sea was an endorheic lake lying between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The name roughly translates as “Sea of Islands”, referring to over 1,100 islands that had dotted its waters.