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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 93 points 5 months ago (9 children)

This is why cows kill so many people. Its really easy for an animal five or six times your weight to kill you just by interacting the same way it does with its own species.

That gets worse as the animal gets bigger.

And cows are basically calm little angels compared to say, hippos.

[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you have any data on that? This rando article says otherwise:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-54268160

And the examples given seem to mostly involve dogs which makes me kinda lean towards "It's the human's fault (cause they did not know how to control their dog(s))"

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

I mean, the other part of "why do so many people die from cows" is along the lines of "They work with cow every day".

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