[a calf of the swedish traditional cattle breed, fjällnära ko, called swedish mountain cattle in english]
so, cows attacking wolves, and similiar natural predators to cows, is in my understanding standard cow behavour
(they will run towards wolves as a herd, and try to stampede the wolves to get away with this threat to their calves. it is a cow instinct)
but i just thought this way of describing this cattle instinct by the museum skansen was funny
skansen about the fjällnära ko
translation: the swedish mountain cattle är friendly animals. but, they can become terrible outraged in one particular situation: when they are defending themselves against wolves and other predators. while other herbivores, like moose and horses, flee when they feel the smell of a wolf or bear, cows will charged towards the predators, while emitting a terrible loud moo.
watch out for the cows, predators of the swedish forest!
[about the swedish mountain cattle]
fjällnära ko is a traditional cow breed from north sweden. they were developed through the ages to be able to survive outside in the cold subartic/near subarctic climare of norrland.
the breed was also traditionally herded as a free range cows, which were moved between winter and summer grazing lands. they were looked after, particulary in the summer, by a female exclusive proffesion of cow herders, fäbodjänta. this traditonal way of raising cows are in swedish called “fäboddrift”.
i educated guess, to why skansen points out them having a good instinct for defending themselves against predators, is that these cows would historically graze freely in forests, were they were. well wolves and bears. being a cow who was good defending themselves against these predators, would therefore be a very very good trait to well. make your entire cow herding thing, keep surviving. therefore, selecting cows with good “stampede wolves” genes would be very beneficial, i am assume.
the second reason they mention it, is i highly suspect, is that not all cows are good at seperating wolves from dogs. or rather, they considering dogs wolves, and treat them as such. a warning about that, can therefore be good to have for a musuem 😛
look out wolves, for the adorble, smoll, and hornless fjällnära ko!
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