BARLEY'S BOVINE BLOG

WELCOME 2 BOVINE CITY!

[bovineblogger]

hi! you can call me barley!

🍎 26 years old, it pronouns, aotearoa/nz based

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(header by @bat-connoisseur, icon by @dandydingo)

[farm-paws]

Honestly it’s no wonder we had to pull Rhubarb, this woman has shoulders like a bullock.

[bovinefigureoftheday]

Bovine figure of the day: Austrian Imperial Amphora Buffalo

[pr0ceeding]

Pretty baby 2021

[bovineblogger]

I've been loving your blog! Here's some of the calves from the farm I work at for your viewing pleasure

ouuuguggggg how cuteeeee <3333 hi sweeties!

[camelidae]

I was hoping to finish this illustration for the end of #Bovember, but unless someone adds a few more days to November, I don’t think that’s gonna happen! It’ll have to be for De-cow-ember? Decembovine? Cow-ristmas??

Next month, it’s gonna be sometime next month.

[bovinefigureoftheday]

Bovine figure of the day: Beswick #4113A Black Belted Galloway Cow

[farm-paws]

She actually came to say hello to me? Who are you and what have you done to Ruby?

[camelidae]

I always love the cows with the hangy-down horns.

[highlandcattleofsaarela]

[bovineblogger]

cow moving it’s sniffer/top lip around to the sounds of a minecraft chest. with shulker sounds too

i was gonna edit this but i couldnt find a clear video of a cow flehmening and gave up. sad!

[wizardarchetypes]

very irritating how often i see people anthropomorphize nonhuman animals (especially wild animals) on this site and online at large but very disappointing that when someone says 'hey don't project human emotions onto that bird/dog/bear/deer etc.' a bunch of other people are like 'exactly. animals don't care' and then go on to describe nonhuman animals as incapable of sentience, compassion, or thought. perhaps there's a secret option about how nonhuman animals think and feel that's neither 'they think and feel exactly as humans do' nor 'they don't think or feel anything.' but idk i'm just some guy.

[aquatic-dusk]

it’s a mistake to assume that nonhuman animals have the same conscious experiences as you, but it is also wrong to assume they dont have any conscious experiences at all. both of these are damagingly human-centric, both will lead you to misconceptions about why animals do things, and both completely disregard the unfathomable diversity of possible ways to experience reality.

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[camelidae]

[strangebiology]

Literature Review Summarizes What We Know about What Cattle Know

This peer-reviewed paper called The Psychology of Cows, funded by Farm Sanctuary’s “The Someone Project,” highlights the things that cows can do, like:

Act more pessimistically after painful experiences

Recognize and prefer gentle people over aggressive people

Get excited when they solve a puzzle (even more so than when they receive a reward for doing nothing.) Eureka!

There is quite a bit of nuance to this article so I’d appreciate at least a cursory read before commenting!

[please-call-me-cordelia]

The Golden Cow in The Golden Pasture, by Geno Rugh.

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