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10 Fun Cow Facts
1. In America, cowboys were originally called “cowherds.” Australians and New Zealanders call them “jackaroos” or “jillaroos”; and, in Latin America, they are called “vaqueros” or “gauchos.”
2. Cows produce methane when they digest food, which they release as flatulence. Twenty-five percent of the methane polluting the atmosphere in the United States comes from cows.
3. Cows have near-panoramic vision, meaning they can see in almost every direction of a 360-degree circle.
4. The typical cow chews cud for up to 8 hours a day, moving its jaws around 40,000 times in the process.
5. Cows fall into the category of “ruminant mammals," which are animals that chew cud. Other ruminants include sheep, goats, deer, and giraffes.
6. Scientists are currently trying to alter the genetic makeup of the basic cow, in an attempt to lower the amount of methane gas they produce during digestion.
7. The average cow’s stomach holds up to 50 gallons—about the same amount as most bathtubs—of partially digested food.
8. Contrary to popular belief, a bull charges a matador not because of the red color of the flag he holds but because of the way the matador moves it.
9. In the mid-19th century, almost every single American family owned at least one cow.
10. The meat from a single cow can be ground into 2,000 quarter-pound hamburger patties.
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10 Fun Cow Facts
1. In America, cowboys were originally called “cowherds.” Australians and New Zealanders call them “jackaroos” or “jillaroos”; and, in Latin America, they are called “vaqueros” or “gauchos.”
2. Cows produce methane when they digest food, which they release as flatulence. Twenty-five percent of the methane polluting the atmosphere in the United States comes from cows.
3. Cows have near-panoramic vision, meaning they can see in almost every direction of a 360-degree circle.
4. The typical cow chews cud for up to 8 hours a day, moving its jaws around 40,000 times in the process.
5. Cows fall into the category of “ruminant mammals," which are animals that chew cud. Other ruminants include sheep, goats, deer, and giraffes.
6. Scientists are currently trying to alter the genetic makeup of the basic cow, in an attempt to lower the amount of methane gas they produce during digestion.
7. The average cow’s stomach holds up to 50 gallons—about the same amount as most bathtubs—of partially digested food.
8. Contrary to popular belief, a bull charges a matador not because of the red color of the flag he holds but because of the way the matador moves it.
9. In the mid-19th century, almost every single American family owned at least one cow.
10. The meat from a single cow can be ground into 2,000 quarter-pound hamburger patties.
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