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Cow attacks another cow in labor
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<blockquote data-quote="alisonb" data-source="post: 1609129" data-attributes="member: 13050"><p>Could it have been a mixture of maternal aggression and herd hierarchy?</p><p>A cow secluding itself from the herd to calve in peace. Suddenly 20 inquisitive cows come rushing up. She feels threatened, her birthing hormones are at work. She acts aggressively towards the closest cow who happens to be the herd matriarch. Fight on...maternal aggression vs hierarchy. Do you know the 'pecking order' of the herd? Well, not quite the whole herd but more who the boss lady is? ;-) </p><p></p><p>Had a cow that was being attacked by bees a time back. She was panicking trying to get away from the bees and mistakenly bashed in to the old matriarch...there was he!! to pay, matriarch took her full on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alisonb, post: 1609129, member: 13050"] Could it have been a mixture of maternal aggression and herd hierarchy? A cow secluding itself from the herd to calve in peace. Suddenly 20 inquisitive cows come rushing up. She feels threatened, her birthing hormones are at work. She acts aggressively towards the closest cow who happens to be the herd matriarch. Fight on...maternal aggression vs hierarchy. Do you know the 'pecking order' of the herd? Well, not quite the whole herd but more who the boss lady is? ;-) Had a cow that was being attacked by bees a time back. She was panicking trying to get away from the bees and mistakenly bashed in to the old matriarch...there was he!! to pay, matriarch took her full on. [/QUOTE]
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