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20 facts about cows
1. If you put on one scale all mankind, and for the second round up all the cows and bulls, the total weight of the "horned" exceeds three times the weight of people.
2. Users and cows have been together for about 8 thousand. years
3. At the 43rd US President George W. Bush is a cow Ophelia.
4. The heaviest cow in the world - Mount Katahdin, Holstein-Durham hybrid - weigh 2270 kg (1906-1910). According to the Guinness Book of Records, she was at the withers 1, 88 and 3, 96 m in girth.
5. The most expensive meat in the world - is a Japanese marbled beef cows Vagiu. For centuries these cows bred in Japan, near the city of Kobe, we treat them very respectfully, fed only the best herbs, rubbed daily sake and fed with beer.
6. The UN has calculated that cows cause the Earth's environment more harm than cars or planes: the cow directly or indirectly related to the allocation of 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the world. Only the cow manure gases, responsible for more than one-third into the atmosphere of greenhouse gases - methane, which warms the Earth 20 times faster than carbon dioxide.
7. The bull began to ruminants in the process of evolution. Bulls and cows could not run too fast, they did not have fangs or claws, so they have a special way of eating: quick grab, swallow without chewing, escape, finished chewing and then - in a quiet environment.
8. The bull does not distinguish between colors on bullfighting, he rushes on cloth bullfighter is not because it is red.
9. Zoology managed to count in cow mooing 11 different "tones».
10. Before a cow in Europe, like many other animals, along with the people held accountable before the law. The processes were conducted with the strictest observance of all forms of legal proceedings and legal requirements. The animals were even excommunicated, which is very severe punishment.
11. Cows can learn from each other: this is a sign of intelligence in their level of dogs and cats are a little higher level. According to information provided Humane Society United States, if one cow will receive an electric shock from the fence - the others pay attention to it and will avoid contact with the fence. Repeat the mistakes of the first cow a small percentage of the flock.
12. The cows can cry.
13. Cows have their close friends, tenderness, which is expressed in the gentle licking each other.
14. Every minute jaw cows make from 30 to 90 movements.
15. Manure hundreds of millions of cows living in the United States, may provide about 100 billion. kilowatt-hours of electricity, enough to supply electricity to millions of homes.
16. Cows feel the magnetic field of the Earth and have his body during feeding and rest along the lines of force.
17. Many peoples long before the cash payments were calculated in cows.
18. On the skin of nasolabial mirror cows have lines similar to the patterns on the hands of man. Like our fingerprints, every individual they are strictly individual. Pastoralists from Indiana in the United States used the method of nose prints for tracing stolen cows.
19. In his lifetime, cow produces about 200 thousand. glasses of milk. A herd of 60 cows produces a ton of milk per day.
20. Smell the cows less developed than in other animals. However, before you start eating grass in a pasture cow sniffs the ground carefully. If the site has recently been scattered fertilizer, she refuses to graze.
Source: www.bayki.com
via factroom.ru
