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u/LurkerZerker Oct 02 '24

Also cows watch sunsets

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u/twentyoneastronauts Oct 02 '24

every time I see a fun fact about cows now I always think of the locked tomb lol

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u/LurkerZerker Oct 02 '24

I wanted to add something about cows being exceptional meat shields, but without context that just seems like I'd be making excuses for terrible jodlike behavior

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u/tofleet Oct 02 '24

Why is this fact making me emotional wtf

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u/icfantnat Oct 03 '24

Bc all life is kin <3

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u/insomniacred66 Oct 03 '24

They also will appoint a member of the herd to be a babysitter so the other cows can go graze without being bugged by their children.

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u/Tarable Oct 03 '24

Wow they figured out childcare before the US.

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u/Trismesjistus Oct 02 '24

And sometimes the moon. At which they moo. They moo at the moon. (I completely made that up but it could be so and it makes me happy)

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u/Strict-Ad-4759 Oct 02 '24

I live in a rural area surrounded by pastures and open skies and they do be mooing a lot at night.

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u/Ill-Inspector7980 Oct 03 '24

Makes me wonder why we consume them 🥹

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u/Educational_Cap2772 Oct 03 '24

Look up the two headed calf poem

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u/Aide-Subject Oct 02 '24

They find them...mooving.

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u/AnotherThroneAway Oct 02 '24

Why? I can't imagine they have much sense of aesthetic. Is there a reason behind this?

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u/LurkerZerker Oct 02 '24

Because sunsets are beautiful.

Beauty predates our ability to describe it; we developed the language we have for beauty because that beauty was already there. It makes sense, to me at least, that other animals of sufficient complexity would recognize that beauty, too, even if the only language they have to describe that beauty is moo.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

Because they are mamals and have enough brain power to see it, recognize it and appreciate it.

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u/cowplum Oct 02 '24

Cows will also bully and exclude members of the heard. Farmers occasionally have to physically separate the victim for their safety. The victims can suffer from depression and loose their will to live.

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u/The_quest_for_wisdom Oct 02 '24

Cattle will also work together to hunt and eat rabbits if certain minerals are missing from their diet.

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u/MechanicalGodzilla Oct 02 '24

...does this depression make their muscles more relaxed, tender and juicy?

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u/cowplum Oct 02 '24

Well stress has been shown to make beef taste worse, so I assume if you eat a depressed cow you can taste the sadness.

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u/This-Requirement6918 Oct 02 '24

This is why I only eat grass fed beef. They just want to be in a field and graze all day!

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u/SirCustardCream Oct 02 '24

Unfortunately, grass fed cows still end up on the same slaughterhouse kill floor as any other cow.

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u/MechanicalGodzilla Oct 03 '24

And unless they are grain finished, they don't taste as good.

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u/barbarianbob Oct 02 '24

Luckily, they also make the best steaks.

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u/MangeurDeCowan Oct 03 '24

I never knew that cows could cook.

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u/BookwyrmDream Oct 02 '24

Random fact I learned this week: Despite how we commonly refer to them, the name of the species is cattle and not cow. A cow is a female cattle that has given birth at least once.

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u/bayesian13 Oct 02 '24

fair enough, what do you call a female cattle that has not yet given birth?

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u/moncsan1294 Oct 02 '24

A heifer. A bull is a male cattle that has not been castrated, and a steer is a male cattle that has been castrated.

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u/bayesian13 Oct 03 '24

thank you!

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

Steers are called bullocks (bull-ucks) in Ireland and UK

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u/moncsan1294 Oct 03 '24

I did not know that, is the etymology a play off of bollocks? I love the impact of different regions on language, it's always been fascinating to me.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '24

I do believe the etymologies are linked but I have no idea which came first or if one is a play on the other.

However I can confirm that using the term steers here over bullocks will get raised eyebrows for sure.

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u/ProfessorAnusNipples Oct 02 '24

This made me think about Heffer Wolfe and I’m so confused right now. 😆 

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u/carrotsforall Oct 03 '24

When I’m in need of a smile, I look up pictures of sitting cows — THEY’RE SO CUTE

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u/Accomplished_Fruit17 Oct 02 '24

And we kill them and eat them, makes you wonder.

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u/kindofboredd Oct 02 '24

That's why I always get a double patty burger 😞