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Freedom.
It’s everywhere.
And yet, no matter how many miles of open paddock cattle have they will move along well worn paths from favoured vegetation types to water and back. These paths can get so worn and dangerous that they erode into gullies and washouts, but the cows continue to follow them anyway.
[I went to Google to find you some pictures of this phenomenon and got waylaid for half an hour reading the amusing debates on a UFO site about ‘impact craters’, featuring aerial/satellite images of bores in Western Australia with wash lines and cattle pads around them. I recommend the search for one lazy afternoon. Hilarious.]
They have freedom to wander anywhere they choose and yet they go to the same familiar zones of grass, shrubs and herbage day after day. Sheep do the same. People do the same. [Read more.]
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Freedom.
It’s everywhere.
And yet, no matter how many miles of open paddock cattle have they will move along well worn paths from favoured vegetation types to water and back. These paths can get so worn and dangerous that they erode into gullies and washouts, but the cows continue to follow them anyway.
[I went to Google to find you some pictures of this phenomenon and got waylaid for half an hour reading the amusing debates on a UFO site about ‘impact craters’, featuring aerial/satellite images of bores in Western Australia with wash lines and cattle pads around them. I recommend the search for one lazy afternoon. Hilarious.]
They have freedom to wander anywhere they choose and yet they go to the same familiar zones of grass, shrubs and herbage day after day. Sheep do the same. People do the same. [Read more.]
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