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German Girl Saddles Up Her Cow and Rides It Like a Horse

When Regina Mayer's parents told her she couldn't have a horse, Mayer didn't get angry. She had a cow instead. That cow would be Luna, the friendly bovine Mayer has trained into the riding companion of her dreams, according to The Associated Press. "She thinks she's a horse," Mayer told the AP from her family's farm in...

This 'Sea Cow' Gives Milk

One Australian artist is giving manatees some competition. For his latest "surreal sculpture," artist Andrew Baines is posing cows in the surf at Abbey Beach in Busselton, Australia. Baines worked with a group called the South West Dairy Farmers to train the bovines to stand in the ocean for periods as long as 10 minutes...

2-Headed Cow Born in Tbilisi, Georgia

A cow in Georgia has given birth to a two-headed calf. Farmer Irakli Dzhgarkava, shown with the calf on Imedi television, says the cow is refusing to allow her strange offspring to suckle, so they are giving it milk from a bottle. He says the calf eats with both heads. Friday's television report says people have been...

Chinese 'Unicorn Cow' Horns In on Fame

(Dec. 2) -- A cow with a horn smack dab in the middle of its forehead is leading some people to claim the supposedly fictional unicorn is alive and well and living in northern China's Hebei province. According to Metro.co.uk, the cow's farmer, Jia Kebing, first noticed a small bump on the cow's forehead when it was born...

Holy Cow! Cattle Embroiled in Violent Incidents

(July 29) -- It's a bad time to be a cow. The often-docile farm animals known mainly for meat, milk and mooing have been involved in a number of violent incidents in recent days -- including several deadly confrontations. Reports of fatal encounters between "killer cows" and hikers in Switzerland have changed the...