Locals in the kebele Dosha in the Tio district of the Arsi zone allegedly found 18.5 grammes of gold in the animal’s stomach after butchering a bull for the Ethiopian Easter, which was observed last Sunday, according to OBN.
How was the bull’s belly’s gold found? What is the prevailing scientific opinion on this? Dr. Abdisa Lema, a laboratory specialist at the Asela Animal Health Centre of the Oromia Regional Agriculture Bureau, who provided the answer, explained that cattle living in desert areas eat plants that contain trace minerals; over time, the minerals are filtered in the gall and transform into gold (commonly known as “gall gold”).
It absorbs the bile flow while it’s in the cow’s stomach, keeping the animals from gaining weight.