9/27 Eyes on Cow Butts

Earlier this week I have learned about eyes on cow butts. Farmers would paint eyes on cow butts because lions would attack from the back of cows. They attacked from the back because they did not want the cows to see them so when they were turned around they would attack. When lions would attack cows farmers would hunt them down and kill them because they just ate their food source. The farmers did an experiment they got sixteen cows painted eyes on a few an X on a couple and left the other cows blank. They waited for the lions to attack and the first ones dead were the cows with nothing on them the cows with the x made it far but were still killed the cows with the eyes, not one cow was touched by the lions. Eventhough Scientist and Farmers have figured this out lions wlll eventuly figure it out but for right now they have found a soulution for a couple af years.

 

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  1. Good job Naomi – I loved this story and experiment. Do you understand the relationship between predator and prey?

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