Stay Curious

SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER AND UNLOCK ONE MORE ARTICLE FOR FREE.

Sign Up

VIEW OUR Privacy Policy


Discover Magazine Logo

WANT MORE? KEEP READING FOR AS LOW AS $1.99!

Subscribe

ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER?

FIND MY SUBSCRIPTION
Advertisement

Will Watching Videos of the Great Outdoors Make Cows "Happy and Productive"?

Can cows watch video footage enhance their productivity? Discover the experiment with Swiss Alps footage and happy cows.

Newsletter

Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news

Sign Up

Some people play Mozart to unborn babies in hopes of increasing their brain power, or talk to their plants in hopes of making them grow faster, so will subjecting cows to hours of video footage of the verdant Swiss Alps make them more productive? Well, we don't know yet. But a Russian farmer has invested the time and the LCD TV's to find out. News reports indicate that the farmer has rigged one side of his shed with 40-inch LCD TVs so that one row of cows can watch footage of the Swiss Alps, where the grass is green and the skies are blue. The cows on the other side are afforded no such diversion. The farmer is monitoring his cattle to see if the TV-watching cows are more "happy and productive." TV is great, but you know what might be even greater? Letting the cows out of the shed ...

Stay Curious

JoinOur List

Sign up for our weekly science updates

View our Privacy Policy

SubscribeTo The Magazine

Save up to 40% off the cover price when you subscribe to Discover magazine.

Subscribe
Advertisement

0 Free Articles