Communicating with Conservation Cattle

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  1. They have an air of disinterest, like a bunch of surly teenagers! Babe is very cute, I am rather fond of cattle on the whole. Is Waynetta named after Waynetta Slob of Harry Enfield fame?

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    • Yes. Wayne and Waynetta are named after the Harry Enfield characters; the fixed expressions of the Belted Galloway’s are very much like those of the Enfield characters.

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      • I also appreciate the benefits. I particularly like the way they are able to turn most of their lights out when they are eating. I think they switch to a hardwired circuit in their brains that allows them to move their legs and jaws, but close everything else down. If they are shouted at whilst in this state, the jump and let out a frightened scream.

      • Fascinating. Like dolphins swimming while asleep. Mind you, I’d scream if someone shouted at me while I was lunching!

      • I suppose the cattle have evolved this ability to switch off, because eating grass, Himalayan balsam, nettles, docs and thistles is such a boring existence.

      • Well, this is my point: If work with monotony, the ability to switch off most of your brain must be a blessing and a survival tactic.

      • Yes indeed, you just need a bit ticking over to be alert for predators (the boss). We are just temporary vessels for our genes after all. Evolving a brain that needs stimulation is a side effect.

      • Indeed! I suggest that having too much brain power might prove to be a disadvantage, particularly for cattle.

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(1) Pink Sorrel (1) Pipe Bridge (1) plants (2) Pleated Inkcap (1) Pleurotus ostreatus (1) Polecat (2) Polecats (1) Pole Dancin' Duck. (1) Polietes lardarius. (1) Pollarding (6) Pollen (1) Pollinators (1) polution (1) Polymerus (Poeciloscytus) unifasciatus (1) Poncey (1) Pope (1) Poppy (3) Practical Conservation Day at Wilden Marsh (3) Pratts Wharf (2) Predation (1) Pregnant Mare (1) Propylea 14-punctata. (1) Prunus spinosa (blackthorn or sloe) (1) Puff-balls (1) Puffball Fungus (1) Puffballs (2) Purple-loosestrife (2) Purple Crane's-Bill (1) Purple Crocus (1) Pussy Willow Bud. (1) Pussy Willow Catkins. (2) Queen (1) rabbit (3) rabbits (4) Ragged Robin (2) Ragwort (27) Ragwort seed head (3) Rain Drops (1) Ramalina farinacea (1) Ramsons (1) Rare Breed Cattle (24) Rat (1) Rats (1) Recycling Plant Fire (1) Red (1) Red-green Carpet (Chloroclysta siterata). (1) Red-Line Quaker (Agrochola lota). (1) Red Admiral Butterfly (1) Red Bartsia (1) Red Campion (6) Red Clover (2) Red Dead-head nettle (1) Red Dog (30) Red Shank - Persicaria maculosa. (1) Redshank. (3) Red Soapwort (1) Red The Marsh Dog fox. (1) Red Winged (12) Red Winged Darter (19) Red Worm (1) Reed Warbler (1) remote cameras (3) Remove term: Belted Galloway Cattle  Belted Galloway Cattle Remove term: Cattle eating thistle  Cattle eating thistle Remove term: Conservation Cattle  Conservation Cattle Remove term: Fox  Fox Re (7) restaurants (1) Rewilding (1) Rhagium mordax (1) Ribwort Plantain (5) Rifles at the heronry (1) ringbark (1) Ringlet (2) River Pasture (1) RIVER POLLUTION (1) Riverside Pasture (11) River Stour (74) RIVER STOUR CLEAR WATER PROJECT (2) rivers trust (1) robin (7) Robin. (4) Robin Redbreast. (1) Rose-bay willowherb (9) Rosebay Willowherb (4) Rosebay Willowherb Blooms. (1) Rotting Tree Trunk (1) Roufg Hawk's-beard (1) Rowan Berries. (3) Rowan Blooms. 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(1) Shooting herons (1) Short-eared Owls (1) Short-palped cranefly (2) Short Horned Grasshopper (1) Shrew (1) Sigma 150 - 500 lens. (5) Sigma EM-140 DG Flash (7) Silent slant-faced grasshoppers (1) Silver Birch Catkins. (1) Six-spot Burnet (1) Skeletons (1) Skeybells (1) Skipper (1) Skipper Butterfly (1) Skullcap (1) Slashpond (3) Slash Pond (1) Sliver Birch Catkins. (1) Sloebug (1) Sloe Bug (4) Slug. (11) Slugs (1) Sluice Gate (1) small copper (1) Small Copper Butterfly (1) Small Skipper (3) Small Skipper (Thymelicus sylvestris) (1) Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly. (7) Small White Butterfly (1) Smooth Glass Snail (1) Snail (20) Snail Hunter (Cychrus caraboides). (1) snails (2) Snake (1) Snake Millipede (Julidae). (3) Snipe (4) Snipe fly (3) Snout (Hypena proboscidalis). (2) Snout Moth (2) snow (2) Snowdrop (2) Snowdrops (1) Soft focus (1) Soldier Beetle (3) Soldier Beetle ( Cantharis nigricans). (1) Soldier Beetle ( Cantharis rustica). (1) Soldier Beetles (2) Soldier Bettles (1) Soldier Fly (1) Song thrushes (1) South end of the north pasture. (1) Southern Marsh Orchid (3) Southern Marsh Orchids (2) Southern Pool (6) Southern Weir (1) South Marsh (2) South Marsh Fox (1) South marsh lightning tree. (1) South Marsh Weir (1) South Pasture (1) South Pond (1) South pool. (12) South Pool and Sluice (1) South Pool Sunset (1) Spangle galls (2) Spear-leaved Willowherb. (1) Spear Thistle. (2) Speckled Bush-cricket (3) Speckled Wood Butterfly (7) Spider (76) Spider's Web (4) Spider (Araneae). (2) Spider carrying her eggs. (1) Spider leg joints (1) Spiders (1) Spider Silk (1) Spike (4) Spindle Toughshanks (1) Spreading Bellflower (1) Spring Beauty (Claytonia perfoliata) (4) Spring Cherry Blossom (2) Spring Crocus. (1) Sprouting Elder Leaf. (1) Square-spot Rustic (1) Square-Spot Rustic (Xestia xanthographa) (1) Squash Beetle (2) Squash Bug (1) Squirrel (10) Squirrel collecting acorns (2) Squirrel eating a nut. (1) Squirrel in motion. (1) SSSI (3) St. John's Wort (6) Stablefly (1) Staffordshire Worcestershire Canal (6) stag (1) Standing Deadwood (1) Stanley Baldwin (3) Stiletto-fly (2) Stinging bees (1) Stinking hellebore (1) Stitchwort. (3) St Marks Fly (7) St Martin's Fly (1) Stoat (1) Stourport History (2) Stourport on Severn (1724) Stourport on Severn history (2) Sugar silos (1) Sulfur Tuft Fungus (1) Sulphur Tuft Fungi (1) Summer days (1) Sunflower (2) sunrise (4) Sunrise Bluebells (1) Sunrise Over Marsh Farm. (1) sunset (7) Sunset Bluebells. (1) Supporttheboardwalk (1) Support The Boardwalk (1) Surface Tension (1) Swallows (2) Swallow Wort (1) Swamp (10) Swan (13) swans (20) Swollen-thighed Beetle (1) Swollen-thighed Beetle - Oedemera nobilis (1) sycamore leaves (1) syrphid (2) Syrphus ribesii (1) Syrphus ribesil (2) Tawny owl chick (1) Tawny Owls (3) TB testing cattle (40) Teasel (1) tenant farmer (1) Tenant Farmer's Field. (2) The Dream (1) there were dozens (1) The South Pool (1) The spider and the fly (1) The Walking Tree (1) the wildlife man (1) Thistle Eating Cattle (95) Thistle Eating Cows (39) Thistle Flower (1) Thistle Head (1) Thistlehead (1) Thistle Head. (1) Thistle Heads (8) Three-fingered Silver Birch Catkin. (1) Tiger Crane-fly (3) time darkness (1) Toading (1) Toadlet (1) TOADS (6) Toad Skin (1) townies (1) Trail cam images. (14) trailCams (1) Tramp (1) Tree Bee (1) TREE BEE--Bombus hypnorum---Family Apidae (1) Tree Blossom (2) Tree Climbing Slug (3) Tree Climbing Slugs. (6) Tree Damsel Bug (1) Tree Damsel Bug (Himacerus (Himacerus) apterus). (1) Tree Fungus (1) Tree Moss (1) Trees (1) Tree Slug (Limax marginatus) (1) Tremella mesenterica. (1) Tuffted Vetch (1) Turkey Tail Fungus (2) Turnip (Brassica rapa). (1) Unfolding Periwinkle. (1) Urban Green Spaces (127) V. pellucens (1) Varied Carpet Beetle. (2) Velvet Shank ( Flammulina Velutipes). (1) Vermin (1) Vermont (14) Vespa Crabro (1) Vespa velutina (2) Vetch (2) View north from the south pool. (1) Vixen (2) Vogle (1) Voglestrom Fincklestein (3) Volucella pellucens (1) Volunteering (4) Walnut Orb-Weaver Spider (Nuctenea umbratica). (6) Walnut Orb Spider (1) WASP (8) Wasp Beetle (1) Wasp Beetle (Clytus arietis). (1) Wasp Nests (1) WASPS (1) Water Chickweed (Myosoton aquaticum) (2) Water Mint (1) Water Rail Pond (1) Wayne and Waynetta (92) Weasel (2) Weevil (22) Weevil (Phyllobius pomaceus) (1) Welsh Poppy (1) West Topsham (13) Wet Bee. (1) Wet bluebells. (1) Wet Honeysuckle (2) White-lipped snail (Cepaea hortensis) (1) White Bell Flower. (1) Whitebells. (1) White Bluebells (4) White Bluebell Sunset (1) white butterfly (1) White Campion (12) White dead-head nettle (4) White Ermine (Spilosoma lubricipeda) catapillar (1) White Nosed Fly -Myopa (1) Whit herb Robert (1) Whittling (2) Wild Angelica (1) Wild Cherry Blooms (2) Wild Currant (2) Wilden (2) Wilden Forge (3) Wilden Iron and Tinplate Co (3) Wilden Iron works. (3) Wilden Lane (7) Wilden Marsh (2742) Wilden Marsh; Wildlife Conservation; (1) Wilden Marsh Guided Walks (1) Wilden Marsh Heronry (3) Wilden Marsh Island (1) Wilden Marsh Nature Reserve (2777) Wilden Marsh Nature Reserves (1) Wilden Marsh Workday (2) Wild Flowers (76) Wild Garlic (3) Wild Geranium (2) Wildlife Conservation (17) wildlife photography (2857) Wildlife Pond Maintenance (1) Wildlife ponds (1) Wildlife Ponds Maintenance (1) Wild Plants (1076) Wild Turnip (4) William Baylly (2) Willow (3) Willow Catkins (3) Willow Coppice Stool (1) Willowherb Seed Head (2) Willows (1) Winter Chaffinch. (1) Winter Daffodils (1) Winter Robin. (1) Witches' Butter (2) Wite Campion (1) Withy Wood (7) Withywood (2) Wolfe Spider carrying its egg sack (1) Wood Anemone (1) Wood Avens (6) Wood Avens (Geum urbanum) (1) Wood Avens Seed head (1) Wood carving (3) woodcock (1) Wood forget-me-not. (2) Woodland Brown Butterfly (1) Woodlice (1) Woodlouse (8) Wood mice (1) Wood Mouse (1) Woodpecker Tree (1) Wood Stitchwort. (1) Worcester and Staffordshire Canal (4) Worcester and Staffordshire History (1) Worcestershire (2) Worcestershire Wildlife Trust (1883) Worcesteshire Wildlife Trust (6) workday (1) Worker Honey bee. (1) Wyre Forest District Council Rangers (55) Wyre Forest Grazing Animals Project (133) Yarrow. (1) Yellow (3) Yellow-Line Quaker (Agrochola macilenta) (1) Yellow-tail catapillar (1) Yellow Archangel (8) Yellow Archangel Bloom (1) Yellow Brain Fungus (1) Yellow Brain Fungus (Tremella Mesenterica). (1) Yellow Cocus (1) Yellow Dung-fly (1) Yellow Dung Fly (Scathophaga stercoraria). 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