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Why do cows are electrocuted than chickens during a thunderstorm?
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∙ 9y ago
It's mainly because they tend to like to hide in the trees and because of their much greater size.
Answer
While the first answer is amusing, it is quite wrong!
When lightning strikes the ground, a potential gradient(points of equal potential) is set up around the area of the strike as the current disperses into the ground. Imagine a 'bulls eye' in which the centre is the point at which the lightning strikes, and the 'rings' each represent a different electrical potential relative to the 'bulls eye'. A cow has a relatively large distance between its fore and hind legs. If the front legs should be on one of the 'rings' and the hind legs on another, then the potential difference appearing between the front and hind legs could be high enough to electrocute the animal. The distance between a chicken's feet, on the other hand, is so short that they are highly unlikely to bridge parts of the ground which are at different potentials and, so, are unlikely to suffer from electrocution.
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