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Eyes Window to Cow's Disposition, APS Study Finds
March 9, 2009
Cows are known for their big, beautiful dark eyes. But University of Guelph researchers have discovered it's actually the whites of their eyes that are important when it comes to determining the animal's temperament.
Animal and Poultry Science professors, Steve Miller, Tina Widowski and Georgia Mason, and master's student, Sarah Core, worked on the study which was published in the recent issue of the Journal of Animal Science. The findings were that the higher the proportion of visible white in a cow's eye, the more anxious the animal.
