So today I was asked if a mark on my arm was from a cow biting me and although this isn’t exactly a myth it is close enough that it is the one I am going to use today.
Cattle teeth are designed to eat grass and other plants that are not flat on the ground. They have teeth on the bottom of their mouth, but on the top is a tough pad of skin. So to eat grass cattle actually first wrap their tongue around it, then clamp it in between their teeth and the pad of skin, then pull with their head to rip the grass out of the ground (you can see this in the video posted below) After ripping the grass loose cattle will quickly swallow it. It will then sit in their 1st ‘stomach’ or digestive cavity the reticulum. Here the grass is softened and later regurgitated as cud for the cow to chew when she is not eating. It is clear to see that this type of anatomy is defiantly not designed to rip the flesh off of a person. I am not saying that if you were to stick your hand in a cow’s mouth they would not try to clamp down on it, they are just not going to go out of their way to take a bite at you!
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