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How does the horns of a cow help?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

It's a great defense mechanism against predators like wolves, bears and cougars. It's also a tool to gain dominance over other herd members. Horned bulls, for instance, are dominant over the polled bulls in a herd, no matter how much bigger or smaller those horned bulls are.

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