Come with us on a journey to learn some deep-rooted (pun intended) data on Scotland's shaggiest icons.
What's the latest moo's? Is it all true??
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The oldest breed of cattle on record in the world?
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Scotland's sturdiest breed?
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An "easy keeper" that won't "test your fences"?
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Everyone's favorite snuggle at cow therapy?
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... but can they really see under all those bangs?
SO MUCH TO RESEARCH!
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The Coo-Pedia "Beyond the Bangs"
Do Highlands have Buddies?
Do cows bond with each other? with humans?
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Sosa SO, Pelé M, Debergue É, Kuntz C, Keller B, Robic F, Siegwalt-Baudin F, Richer C, Ramos A and Sueur C (2019) Impact of Group Management and Transfer on Individual Sociality in Highland Cattle (Bos taurus). Front. Vet. Sci. 6:183. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2019.00183 (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2019.00183/full)
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Borbala Foris, Manuela Zebunke, Jan Langbein, Nina Melzer,
Comprehensive analysis of affiliative and agonistic social networks in lactating dairy cattle groups,
Applied Animal Behaviour Science,
Volume 210,
2019,
Pages 60-67,
ISSN 0168-1591,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2018.10.016.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159118303915)
Keywords: Affiliative; Agonistic; Dairy cow; Social behaviour; Social network; Welfare



