Painting a pair of eyes on the rear of a cow could help protect it from being attacked by lions and leopards, a new study has found. Scientists at the University of New South Wales in Australia, who ...

What if cows could avoid flies from biting them just by wearing stripes? According to a new study published in PLOS ONE, when Japanese researchers painted zebra-style stripes on cows, biting flies ...

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No, scientists are not unveiling a new cow-zebra crossbreed, but they are painting cattle with stripes. According to a new study published in peer-review journal PLOS ONE, painting cows with ...

For four years, researchers painted fake eyes on hundreds of cattle butts for the sake of science. What seems like a silly prank, the “eye-cow technique” proved lifesaving for the animals as it made ...