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While we are on the subject...
" Faces on butts. An Australian researcher has come up with a not-so-cutting-edge way of keeping the livestock of Botswana farmers safe from predators: painting eyes on their cows' butts. Neil Jordan, a conservation biologist at the University of New South Wales, came up with the idea a few years ago when he was doing conservation work in a village in rural Botswana. Since then, Jordan has tracked herds with and without eyes painted on their rear ends, and found that all of those that employed his technique survived. "
" Faces on butts. An Australian researcher has come up with a not-so-cutting-edge way of keeping the livestock of Botswana farmers safe from predators: painting eyes on their cows' butts. Neil Jordan, a conservation biologist at the University of New South Wales, came up with the idea a few years ago when he was doing conservation work in a village in rural Botswana. Since then, Jordan has tracked herds with and without eyes painted on their rear ends, and found that all of those that employed his technique survived. "
Painting Eyes On Cows’ Butts Can Scare Away Predators - Modern Farmer
What do you get when you paint a pair of eyes on a cow’s butt? The answer: a cost-effective approach to scaring predators away. The promise of this simple
modernfarmer.com