2006-11-09 20:05:50 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
got a farm back behind my property......and i've never seen them standing on top of each other but i have seen them laying on each other sort of like cuddling.....to get out of the sun.....we've got lots of cows, bulls and cattle here in texas.....
2006-11-09 20:22:12 · answer #1 · answered by geekieintx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, really, they have nothing else to do and weigh like a ton ... what do you expect them to do? Run around and use up the little energy that grass provides for conversion of glucose into ATP (Adenosine triphosphate ... look it up on wikipedia)? If they were omnivores, they might actually be able to move themselves a little faster ... possibly ... Also, you might want to question all of the people who say grass is difficult to break down and that why cows are 'slow' ... IF that was the case, then what about wildebeest in Africa ... or how about the deer living right next door to the cows and graze on grass? No answer from the digestion crowd. You want to know why? Because deer and wildebeest eat OTHER things besides grass ... providing a supplement to that whole grass thing ... and more foods in the tank, equal things that break down in ATP for cells quicker which, lo, and behold, provide a 'quicker' animal! The best example to test the whole ATP versus digestion thing is to look at 2 other animals: the sloth and the panda. Both slow creatures, who coincidentally have only ONE stomach! But what do slow moving animals like cows, sloths, and pandas have in common? All only eat one type of thing most of the time ... plant life which doesn't provide much glucose ... which doesn't give much ATP to cells because what they eat truly has little nutritional value. Don't take the easy way out and try to say, "Oh, because grass is very hard to digest." because that would mean that all 'vegetarians' (meaning animals, people or otherwise) are 'slow-moving' and have a hard time digesting their food because of plants' thick cellular walls - which the latter is true, but the former isn't. It also doesn't explain why they graze ALL day. Because if grass were so HARD to digest they would literally fill themselves up at some point (like some of the other animals mentioned) and wouldn't just graze all day ... not to mention all of the excrement they produce. And also to the guy who said because they have to lactate ... that is a primary bodily function ... so, no, cows don't have to eat to lactate, but the milk will be sorely lacking the value if they had ... sort of like not drinking water and have dark colored urine ...
2016-05-22 02:17:18 · answer #2 · answered by Karen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
@zoology yes they do it is 2015 and I just saw this on a really hot day the cows were in a huddle with one cow standing on top of the herd of cows !!! No lie I saw it with my own eyes and so did my son and daughter since the farm was farm was directly across the street from their school
2015-08-19 09:47:09 · answer #3 · answered by b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is not what you think you saw...Go back to biology and you will see that those cows were try to propagate.
2006-11-09 20:07:51 · answer #4 · answered by ray b 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As long as they know the maximum stacking depth otherwise the column will collapse!!
2006-11-10 01:51:24 · answer #5 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they do. They also line dance and have coffee with creme
2006-11-09 20:16:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah-
2006-11-09 20:07:47 · answer #7 · answered by NATE 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
mmhmmmmmm and they carry little invisable ladders around so they can do that!
2006-11-09 20:13:51 · answer #8 · answered by Jo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
........ It depends at which point of year you saw them doing that............... sometimes people call it "mating season".
2006-11-09 22:16:34 · answer #9 · answered by Dick H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes they do
2006-11-09 20:17:29 · answer #10 · answered by norsmen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋