Animals do the darnedest things: Harvard cow
| August 31, 2009 | 10:01 AM
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What the hay, a cow is going to Harvard?
Yep, a professor plans to bring the bovine to the Ivy League university in Cambridge, Mass., and graze it, school officials have announced. Why? Cud he can.
Religion don Harvey Cox notes that the bizarre moove is allowed under a 300-year-old university tradition. As the Hollis Research professor of divinity chair, a position endowed in 1721, Cox also holds grazing rights at Harvard Yard for any cows he might have.
The professor plans to exercise those rights — and probably the cow, too — at a ceremony and milking of the animal Sept. 10.
Now you might be thinking Harvard has a reached a new low, but Cox says he is just trying to keep tradition alive at the school. It also sounds like a good way to drive a herd of publicity. Hopefully the professor isn’t merely trying to milk that as well.
Read more at boston.com.
More tales of animals doing the darnedest things:
- In California, more than 350 dachshunds waddled their way down the racetrack in the Wiener Nationals. Read more at signonsandiego.com.
- At an Oregon aquarium, two sea lions are creating flipper artwork. Read more at oregonlive.com.
- In England, three female gorillas went bananas over a photo of a male gorilla scheduled to arrive at their zoo from France. Read more at cnn.com.
- Also in England, a chimpanzee has stepped in to act as mother for an orphaned puma cub. Read more at London’s Daily Mail.
- A chicken and a duck dropped off at Minnesota animal shelter have become inseparable pals. Read more at startribune.com.
- In Connecticut, a boy known as “The Chicken Whisperer” is putting the farmyard fowl at ease. Read more at newstimes.com.
- In New Zealand, a cat rode about 62 miles under a car. Read more at stuff.co.nz.
- In Germany, farmers are dealing with a marmot invasion. Read more at The Local.
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