Cow question (non-Valk)

[FLAVALK]

Why do the cows chase the RC car????? 

http://www.youtube.com/embed/NA-ST8nXl4U?rel=0

[rmrc51]

LOL, cute! 

[Rowdy]

  Who'd have thought 

[..]

Why do the cows chase the RC car????? 

http://www.youtube.com/embed/NA-ST8nXl4U?rel=0

Ahem.

Cows have udders.

The beasties are building up the nerve to stomp the car.

I was ushered out of a field of Charoliais many years ago. Big buggers but generally fairly docile  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charolais_cattle

I had ridden through the field on my mountain bike many times before with cows and calves present. No problems.

This one time I decided to walk because a lot of the beasties were on the clearly defined track I normally used.

About half way through the field I had one of those someone is following me moments. Turned around and about 20 of the beasties were dogging my footsteps. I put my bicycle between me and the cloven hoofed buggers and walked towards them. They backed off so I resumed my walk. Once again the steaks on the hoof were right behind me. Once again I backed them off with my deadly looking bicycle.

This went on quite a few time. However the clever perambulating prime ribs had formed a half circle around me leaving my only avenue of escape across a barbed wire fence.   The "safe" side of the barbed wire fence was thick with 6 foot tall stinging nettles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinging_nettle

I had to beat these down with my bike to make any forward progress. After about 20 yards of this I was pooped so I detoured into a stream that ran parallel with the barbed wire fence and with bike hoisted on shoulder made my way to the first safe egress point.  

[mario]

as near as i can figure, the sound of the toy may be triggering a 'cattle call' sound that the cows have herd (see what i did there?) before, like from a tractor pulling a haywagon, and that COULD be what causes them to want to follow. a possible feeding time. 
or i could be off in left field  on my theoryrocker and the cows are just plain curious as heck. 

[Varmintmist]

Looks like young steers form the clip. Kids will be kids and it was a toy.

When pagers were big, a neighbor called one at feeding time, then collared a older cow and put the pager on her. When he wanted them in, he just called ahead.

FYI Britman, Charolais are not docile as a norm. They are NOT like the Black Angry ones, but they have some pasture "tude". More than likely though, when you were on the bike, you were a vehicle, when you went on foot, you were supposed to come with food and you didn't. That made you interesting.

[fudgie]

Yep them look like steers. 

[bigfish_Oh]

My Dad had one cow once he was feeding to feed us. He would cut his grass in the bagger and dump it for her to eat. It got so every time he came out of the house she would bellow and he would have to cut a hopper. I was over once and said I'm going to go pet Bess, he said I couldn't get close. She was feeding on a big pile of cut grass. I crawled up, she saw me. I stood up beside her and could scratch her back, moved up and scratched her forehead. One more step put my foot on her grass and she butted my foot off. I stepped on her grass repeatedly and she would nudge me off it, but didn't care I was 1" away. I asked my Uncle about that and he said one cow alone would develope a personality, where in a herd they would merge.

[Jess Tolbirt]

o yea!!!! BULL NETTLES!!!!!!! dam things are called wait a minute bushes where i come from...

oh sh t WAIT A MINUTE!!!!!!

[Oss]

If the "cows" had motors they would do better

udderly rediculous but funny

[Tim H]

Very funny.  I think curiosity is what killed the cat, but steers keep a safe distance.

[hotglue #43]

Pretty interesting.  Musk Ox, a bovidae relative, acts very much the same when confronted by a single predator. 
Check the link.

http://www.nps.gov/gaar/naturescience/muskox-circle-defense.htm

[RoadKill]

Run the RC car at feedin time and then drive it to the feed and let it run. pretty soon cattle will associate the RC with feed and follow it. some dude did that with dogs once,and I think the big dog was named Ivan,but we just called him Pavlov!

[R J]

Why do the cows chase the RC car????? 

http://www.youtube.com/embed/NA-ST8nXl4U?rel=0

1 steer, bull or whatever will chase it and the rest will follow, That is just their nature.   They are either intrigued by it or curious as to what it is.