One minute, I'd be running around, and the next, I'd see a cow, friendly but imposing, chomping on my mother's flower bed. And then the big old farm animal would have a lie down. Talking of mums ...

Just check a cow pasture. If all the cows are lying down, a rainstorm is coming — or so this old wives’ tale claims. Believers have schemed up several different explanations for why our bovine ...

Just check a cow pasture. If all the cows are lying down, a rainstorm is coming — or so this old wives' tale claims. Believers have schemed up several different explanations for why our bovine ...

We specifically were researching heat-stressed cows, and whether high temperatures would make them lie down longer. In general with what we know about physiology, an animal will lie down when stressed ...

What you have then is the raw material for a research report in Applied Animal Behaviour Science, under the title “Are cows more likely to lie down the longer they stand?” This curious paper ...

Tales like, if cows are laying down it means it's going to rain. We asked around to find out if it's true. Dairy farmers insist that when a cow lies down, they're not forecasting -- they're working.

One minute, I'd be running around, and the next, I'd see a cow, friendly but imposing, chomping on my mother's flower bed. And then the big old farm animal would have a lie down. Talking of mums ...