We have a bet going in our office.... I say that a Cow can out run a man. I'm referring to a cow (Dairy) not a Bull. Help me out with some answers and how you came to your conclusion. Cheers!
2006-12-14 07:32:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Humans can run far faster than 12 mph. During a sprint, I believe it is somewhere around 23mph. (200 meters in about 19.5 seconds (world record) = about 23 miles per hour.)
http://www.animalag.msu.edu/files/documents/press/about_taffy_063000.htm
This was over a one mile course. The winner finished in 8:54.4 which should give her an average speed of 5.55 mph (I think). This was a whole mile run though. From my own experience, cows are a lot faster than that when they are sprinting... I could never catch up to them in the barnyard!
If a cow is falling, it can go very fast.
A very strange true story:
Earlier this year, the dazed crew of a Japanese trawler were plucked of the Sea of Japan clinging to the wreckage of their sunken ship. Their rescue, however, was followed by immediate imprisonment once authorities questioned the sailors on their ship's loss. To a man they claimed that a cow, falling out of a clear blue sky, had struck the trawler amidships, shattering its hull and sinking the vessel within minutes.
They remained in prison for several weeks, until the Russian Air Force reluctantly informed Japanese authorities that the crew of one of its cargo planes had apparently stolen a cow wandering at the edge of a Siberian airfield, forced the cow into the plane's hold and hastily taken off for home. Unprepared for live cargo, the Russian crew was ill-equipped to manage a now rampaging cow within its hold. To save the aircraft and themselves, they shoved the animal out of the cargo hold as they crossed the Sea of Japan at an altitude of 30,000 feet.
2006-12-14 07:37:10 · answer #1 · answered by DanE 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have worked on a ranch and the cow can be faster. I think if they got really wound up they could reach 30 mph. I know you can not out run one.
2006-12-14 07:41:30 · answer #2 · answered by Thomas S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-08-01 13:18:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The world record for the fastest RACE HORSE is 43.97 mph and cows are much slower than that. I've worked with cows my entire life and have never clocked one but they do not run anywhere near 30 mph. Based on rounding them up with a RZR I'd say top speed is around 15-20 mph. I say that because I can outrun any cow in low gear and that will only get up to around 20mph.
2016-06-18 17:30:43 · answer #4 · answered by Dominic 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well a standard cow can run about 30 mph.
and a human can run about 25 mph.
the standard cow is faster
2006-12-14 07:39:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
all i know is that hereford bull that my granddad had when i was 15 years old ran fast enough to help me over that barb wire fence and boy did i fly cows can out run humans any day try to catch one see if you are fast enough
2006-12-14 12:34:13 · answer #6 · answered by hill bill y 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say the cow would be faster if it were running at its top speed.
2006-12-14 09:26:19 · answer #7 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cows are faster. You'd think that because they are much bigger that they wouldn't be able to move so quickly, but dang they are some fast little bugger.
2006-12-15 00:28:22 · answer #8 · answered by drnotwhoyouthinkiam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, a cow can outrun a man.
2006-12-14 07:34:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if u want to find out try it i aint no guinie pig
2006-12-14 07:41:07 · answer #10 · answered by Victorio 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋