Cow facts! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

1. Cows can form life long relationships with each other and experience sadness at separation
2. Cows have spots that are individually unique and are never the same.
3. Cows have near 360-degree vision due to their eyes being on the sides of their head
4. bulls hating red is a myth since they’re actually color blind.
5. Cows have strong memories and can remember different human faces and places.
6. Rather than having four separate stomaches, a cow has one singular stomach with four chambers (the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum) that help break down tough grass.
7. Cows can smell 6 miles away (10 kms away)
8. When grazing or resting cows tend to align their bodies along the earth’s magnetic north-south axis
9. No two cows have the same nose print.
10. Cows can walk up stairs but can’t walk down them because their joints don’t bend that way
11. Cows have different regional dialects and each herd sounds different from the last.
12. Another fact about their dialects is that they’re lifelong and helps them identify each other
13. cows moos are not random gibberish and instead contain unique repeatable vocalizations meant to communicate different moods
14. Cows use the positioning of their ears and neck to communicate as well and are fundamental in cow communication
15. Cows sleep in fragments and only sleep up to 4 hours a day
16. When a new cow is introduced into a herd they undergo a period of trials like small head butts to reestablish the exact herd ranking.
17. Cows actually experience excitement when solving puzzles and will jump or run around in excitement
18. Cows will babysit each others babies and utilize a collective childcare system so that they can graze more with the peace of mind that their child is being looked after
19. Cows will adopt and nurse orphans from other species and will protect it
20. Their predecessors were domesticated in the Middle East about 10,500 years ago

(I know some of these are basic but just felt like sharing anyways:D)