I think I said once that it's impossible to take an interesting picture of a cow. This is because cows are inherently boring creatures who do nothing except eat grass and stand around listlessly.
I stand by this, but I think I came close on Sunday. This is a handsome looking cow doing its usual boring eating grass thing, but doing it right next to a sign that spells out its fate. What would happen if this cow learned to read?
UPDATE: After careful observation of other photos in this series, I still can't tell for sure if this is a male or female cow. But I'd say it's probably female, and several commenters think it's female too. If so, it ruins the joke a bit since she will never be eaten, but kept alive to produce lots of baby cows.
She. It's a she-cow.
And she's staring at you like she knows what you did, so she might have a kind of nagging suspicion.
Shirley the cow is permitted to self-identify as a he?
No one ever worries which bathroom the cow is using.
I’m sure folks would be happy that a cow used any bathroom 🙂
No! No they wouldn't!
Cows are not tidy! They do not sell Tidy Cow!
It would seem one can potty train a cow: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-potty-trained-young-cows-a-promising-measure-to-reduce-greenhouse-gases-180978687/
One small step for cow, one giant leap for moo-kind.
Today the litterbox, tomorrow the world.
That's how cats did it.
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Not sure that's a cow. Looks more like a bull to me. I wouldn't visit him in the field.
Yes
Reminds me of a parable - James Agee's "A Mother's Tale."
I'm not 100% certain, but nearly so that this is a she, not a he; her calf is in the right foreground, and you can see the curve of her udder behind the curve of her belly.
If you think she's male due to the horns, with many rumens, both males and females grow horns and keep them throughout their lives. (Deer and moose, withe males who grow and drop their racks every year, are a bit different than farm animals that way.) Most cattle lose their horns because they're burned away soon after birth with an acid to prevent them from damaging human handlers and others in their herd; though this varies by breed.
Don’t forget, it (preferred pronoun) is burping methane too…
"...do nothing except eat grass and stand around listlessly."
So true. I had a friend who told me about cows. He said there is a simple rule of cattle: Cows don't move. If you see a bunch of cows in a field, you'll seldom see any of them moving, even if you stop your car and watch them for a while. If you see one of them moving, that's called a restless herd. And if you see two moving at the same time, you better hightail it out of there; that's a stampede
Untrue. They take a few bites, then they have run out of grass, so they take a step and then take a few bites. Rinse and repeat.
Alternatively...
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/mcs/media/images/75026000/jpg/_75026452_mora_ap.jpg
An interesting, if somewhat disturbing, photo of a cow: https://www.suffolkgazette.com/nosy-cow-neighbour/
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Surely that's true love!
Some years ago, I ate dinner at a Longhorn Steak House. The place was packed, and the only option for immediate seating was outside. Immediately across the street from us was a herd of cows.
Because that cow is a horse. https://youtu.be/aww4HT5g7ig
Please eat beef, not chicken
https://www.onestepforanimals.org/about.html
It’s pretty clearly a Texas longhorn, with both males and females having horns. Females tend to have the more ornate curved horns, while male’s horns tend to go straight out to the side. Her neck also seems too thin to be a male. A closer up could look for the male parts down below, but hard to see here. Seeing as it’s likely a female, she’s not going to end up being any human’s dinner, but will live a long life happily giving birth to calf after calf, who will stay with her for a year or so until they:
1) if a male that is castrated early on, then goes to the slaughterhouse after fully becoming a fully grown steer, but with lower testosterone which keeps him nice and tender
2) if one of the few non-castrated males, he’ll likely be shipped off to another farm as a bull so that he can procreate with a bunch of the females there who don’t happen to be his mother, or aunt, or sister....
3) if a female, she’ll have her own children and keep doing what her mom did.
The meat of older cows is just not good enough to sell in stores or serve in restaurants, so while they’ll eventually become a meal one day, the meal will be a meal for all the animals who will feast of her carcass after a long life.
Oh no! Cosmo!
https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1630713920112541697
In answer to your hypothetical question, I think there might be a rebullion!
Always be nice to a half ton (or more) beast with horns.
What would happen? We know what would happen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI
THAT is hilarious!
Replace it with a bison. Is it an interesting photo now? If so, why, because they're pretty much doing the same thing.
A cow is a boring animal? I don't buy that. Just study a cow's digestive system and marvel!
Seriously, I demand a post about which animals are boring--or not--and how Kevin makes this call!
The mole. Totally boring.
Cows are boring? Not necessarily. https://www.cow.movie/
"if this is a male or female cow." Pretty sure it's not a male cow as there is no such thing. A cow by definition is a adult female of certain species of animals that has had a calf. An uncastrated male would be a bull and a castrated male is a steer (or bullock.) . To be specific, there is no word in the english language for the animal in your picture. (Take that Kurt Vonnegut)