Originally Posted by David in PA
Hello,
I didn't moo at the cows, but I often waved to them as I rode by during my long tour. I found it amazing that these supposedly dumb animals always took notice of my wave, and sometimes walked up to me.
In VA, when I waved about thirty of them came towards me up to the fence at the edge of their corral. I got off my bike and walked towards them. Suddenly, they walked quickly away and formed a circle with the biggest one (a bull?) in the center. Maybe they felt threatened by me, and herded together for protection.
I started walking away but also waved and called out to them. They came walking back to my direction. They all crowded around the fence staring directly at me. It was pretty cool, actually.
By the way, I have pictures if you don't believe me.
David in PA
One of the funniest images of cows I've seen was on a 600K brevet attempt I made this past June. The day was absolutely HORRIBLE!! 60+ km/h winds, pouring rain, about 10C/50F, the occasional thunder and lightening.
We were crawling along at about 14 km/h into a wind that was sort of head/cross from the right. I looked up at one point to see a field of cows.
All the cows were standing, lined up in a perfectly straight line, side by side, along the fence, with their backs to the wind. Not a single one was anywhere else in the field, they were all in this line. It was like someone had come along and told them, "Up against the wall!!"
Of course, they were all looking at us like we'd gone insane ... which we probably had.