Top cool facts you never knew about Cows

Check out our range of interesting facts about Cow for kids. Learn the world population of cattle, what young cows are called, what they eat and much more.

1. In deep mud, cows can run faster than horses!
2. A cow has one stomach with four compartments. The rumen, reticulum, omasum and the abomasum.
3. Cow are ruminates meaning they can digest food that can normally not be digested.
4. Like a human’s fingerprints, no two cow’s spots are exactly the same.
5. A cow is pregnant for nine months. A calf is about 90 pounds when it is born.
6. Cows have an excellent sense of smell. They can smell up to 5 miles away!
7. Cattle are herbivores that eat vegetation such as grass.
8. Cattle stomachs have four chambers which help break down what they eat
9. There are well over 1 billion cattle in the world.
10. Cattle are sacred in India.
11. There are an estimated 300 million cattle in India.
12. Young cattle are generally known as calves.
13. Like many other grazing animals cattle have one stomach which is divided into four compartments or chambers: the rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum. This allows them to digest grain and grasses most effectively.
14. Cattle have almost 360° panoramic vision. This helps them to see predators coming from any direction. Enjoy the best collection of animals facts on our site to widen your knowledge.
15. Cattle have an excellent sense of smell. They can detect odours up to five miles away. They can also hear both low and high frequency sounds beyond human capability.
16. The cow is a protected animal in Hinduism, and Hindus do not eat beef. Cows are honoured at least once a year, on Gopastami. On this day cows are washed and decorated in temples.
17. Mahatma Ghandi described a cow as “a poem of compassion”, also stating that “I worship the cow and I shall defend its worship against the whole world”.
18. The meat of cows is widely eaten by people across the world. Cows' milk is also drunk and used to make other products such as cheese. Many people who consume animal products would like to choose products from animals kept in higher welfare systems. However welfare labelling on products can be confusing. 
19. Adult females are generally called cows.
20. Adult males that are not castrated are generally called bulls.
21. Cattle are red/green color blind.
22. In the sometimes controversial sport of bull fighting, bulls are angered by the movement of the cape rather than its red color.
23. Cattle are farmed for a number of agricultural products including meat and dairy products.

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Tigers can climb trees

Don't you know why and when do tigers climb trees? Just keep reading to know more about this tigers facts

Although able to climb trees, tigers rarely climb trees; they can easily reach 500 pounds, which is far too heavy for efficient climbing. Tiger cubs have been seen going up and down trees for fun, but they do so less as they grow larger. 

Mostly, tigers avoid climbing trees because they don't always know how to get down, which leads to very awkward situations.

Cubs:

Tiger cubs willingly climb trees for about the first sixteen months of life and young tigers have been sighted following langur monkeys up into the trees in an effort to secure a feed. But after this age their increasing weight makes both ascent and descent difficult, and few tree branches have the needed strength to hold their weight.

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Adults:

Adults seldom climb, but are quite capable of doing so; they may do this if being chased by dogs or when after prey. There have been occasions of men climbing trees to escape an attacking tiger, only to be killed when the tiger followed them up. 

This does not mean tigers are willing or efficient climbers. On the contrary, they are not. The white Bengal and Amur tigers shown here are doing something quite unusual for tigers of their age.

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Tiger facts for your kids

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1. The tiger is capable of killing animals over twice its size; it is one of nature’s most feared predators.
2. Like its ancestor, the sabre-tooth cat, the tiger relies heavily on its powerful teeth for survival. If it loses its canines (tearing teeth) through injury or old age, it can no longer kill and is likely to starve to death.
3. Tigers live alone and aggressively scent-mark large territories (up to 100sq km in size) to keep their rivals away.
4. They are powerful nocturnal hunters that travel many miles to find buffalo, deer, wild pigs, and other large mammals. A Bengal tiger can eat 21kg of meat in a night and can kill the equivalent of 30 buffaloes a year.
5. The roar of a Bengal tiger can carry for over 2km at night.
6. Although tigers are powerful and fast over short distances, the Bengal tiger cannot outrun fleet footed prey such as deer. Instead it uses stealth to catch its victims; attacking from the side or the rear.
7. Tigers use their distinctive coats as camouflage (no two have exactly the same stripes).
8. If the kill is large, the tiger may drag the remains to a thicket and loosely bury it with leaves, then return to it later.
9. As well as game animals, it preys on wild boar, monkeys, lizards and occasionally porcupines.
10. Females give birth to litters of two to six cubs, which they raise with little or no help from the male. Cubs cannot hunt until they are 18 months old and remain with their mothers for two to three years, when they disperse to find their own territory.
11. Like domestic cats, all tigers can purr. Unlike their tame relatives, however, which can purr as they breathe both in and out, tigers purr only as they breathe out.
12. Unlike other cats, tigers are good swimmers and often cool off in lakes and streams during the heat of the day.

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