• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 hours ago

    You’d be surprised how quiet a cow can be when it wants to. Once when I was collecting a water sample in a pond I saw there were cows a fair distance across the field, and in the minute or so of stopping and squatting it took me to find a way to get the sample without getting covered in mud, a group of fully grown cows had silently crept up to within about 10 feet of me to stare at me like 🫪 As soon as I stood up I was a person again and they lost interest in me. Definitely raised my heart rate a bit!

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      8 hours ago

      I love this story. Do you have any other interesting cow anecdotes or surprising cow facts you’d be willing to share? I’m a cow fan, but I don’t have much direct experience with them.

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        They’ll keep wanting to play when they’re under a year old even when they weigh 500+ pounds, which can be a little intimidating! They’re super curious even as adults, if you leave a large exercise ball in their enclosure they’ll chase it around and headbutt it. They also have incredibly rough tongues, like a cat’s tongue times 10.

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    13 hours ago

    Statistically, cows pose a much greater threat to Americans than bears and sharks combined. Cattle reportedly kill roughly 20 people each year in the United States, while fatal bear and shark attacks average about two per year for each species.

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      1 hour ago

      Well how many cows are killed by Americand each year? I’d say it’s more than fair game on the cows’ side.

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      6 hours ago

      It’s mostly due to the fact that we don’t corral sharks by the hundreds. You get a herd of cattle moving in a direction and they aren’t stopping just because a human is there.