• AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Do not let cows be predators. That’s how you get the mad cow disease. Which means that these bells are medicinal.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      5 hours ago

      That’s how you get the mad cow disease.

      No. You get that by feeding them the ground up bones and brains of other cows that have been fed the ground up bones and brains of yet other cows.

      What you get by letting cows be predators is a three movie deal with a possibility for a larger franchise.

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day 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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    1 day 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.