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Cows (mini Bulls)
Cows-Facts-
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There are over 1000 different breeds of cattle in the world.
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There are over 1.4 billion cattle in the world.
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Baby cows are called calves
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The adult female is called a cow.
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The adult male is called a bull.
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They like to eat plants and grass
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India is home to over 300 million cows
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They are colorblind to red and green colors.
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Cows get used for various things like dairy, meat, and even leather.
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Dairy cows produce 90% of the milk we use.
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They eat about 40 pounds of food a day.
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Cows can hear both higher and lower frequencies better than human beings.
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The average dairy cow weighs about 1,200 lbs.
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A cow’s body temperature is 101.5 degrees Fahrenheit, and their hearts beat at sixty to seventy beats per minute.
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You often see a cow chewing. They chew at least fifty times a minute and has 40,000 movements of their jaw per day.
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Most of the time, we see a cow standing, but they sit down and stand up around fourteen times each day.
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When you see a cow grazing, they are not biting the grass but instead curling their tongues around it.
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They have panoramic vision, and they have 300 degrees vision and can see everything except what is directly behind.
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They have just one stomach, that’s divided into four different compartments for digestion.
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The length of time for a cow to be pregnant is the same as humans: nine months.
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Cows produce a lot of salivae. They make so much saliva that it totals to around 125 pounds per day.
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A typical day for a cow is 8 hrs. eating, 8 hrs. chewing their cud and 8 hrs. sleeping.