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Cows can recognize human faces

Cows are social animals and have cow best friends, but new research shows that they can also recognize and differentiate human faces. Cows have been domesticated for over 10,000 years, but we are ...
In early March, Dr. Barb Petersen, a large-animal vet in Texas, began getting calls from the dairy farms she works with in the Panhandle. Workers there were seeing a lot of cows with mastitis, an ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Montbeliarde cattle (Image by Oligo22, Shutterstock) Cows show a visual preference for new human faces over familiar ones. They ...
Another dairy farm worker in Michigan has been infected with avian influenza virus, state and federal health officials reported Thursday. The case marks the third time the outbreak of bird flu in ...
Scientists have proven how cows have spread H5N1 bird flu across the country and infected other cows, wild birds and even mammals like cats and raccoons, according to research published in Nature ...
H5N1 bird flu is branching out. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that a second type of H5N1 has likely spread from dairy cows to humans. The CDC and health ...
We knew that dogs and babies make a good combination but cows and babies took us a bit by surprise. Make no mistake: This is the cutest thing you'll see all day. A mama cow met with a Mama human who ...
There is nothing sweeter than the bond between a tiny human and the animals on their farm. Especially when those animals are a herd of curious cows! In this adorable video, one sweet little guy has ...