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Except this is a cow we’re talking about, and he’s not a journalist.
Nevertheless, a cow in Poland recently decided to immerse himself in the culture of the bison–making the unusual choice to spend an entire winter with a herd.
After running away from his farm last fall, the cow “has been seen lingering on the fringes of a herd of some 50 bison in the forest on the Belarusian border.”
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When an ornithologist named Adam Zbyryt saw the cow, he first thought it was an weirdly colored bison.
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Soon–with the help of binoculars–he realized it was a Limousin cow.
This is hardly the first time that a cow has taken up with a bison herd. However, it may be recaptured, due to scientists’ fears of it mating and the potential dangers involved in that.