As a little girl, I always wanted a pony for Christmas. Santa never brought me a pony. So in my late 40s, I started taking horseback riding lessons. When I turned 50, I got my first horse, an Icelandic named Blessi (Veigar frá Búðardal). Little did I know how much fun life with an Icelandic was going to be. Blessi has a unique perspective on life. I hope you enjoy reading about it as much as I enjoy Blessi. And you will probably read about my cats from time to time.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Cows--Seek versus Fear
In her book Animals Make Us Human, Dr. Temple Grandin says that cows are by nature very curious. However, they can flip from fear to seek and seek to fear almost instantaneously. She talked about walking around the cattle pens and leaving a clip board with papers on the ground. The cows were fascinated with the clip board and would come up and inspect it--until the wind rustled the papers which made it a scary thing to run away from. When the wind stopped, they would march right up and inspect the binder again. Below is a video illustrating the fear to seek switch in cows.
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