WaylayerCows Are Cool

As wolves and bears have long ago vanished from the Alps, today's hiker has to be content with confronting ferocious bovine beasts like the waylayer at the top. It even wears a mask.

Below are some more Simmentals, photographed on my hikes in Bavaria, Italy, Austria and Switzerland. (To enlarge a picture, just click on it.)

Cow Deutschnofen South Tyrolean Cow and Dark Clouds Swiss Dark Cow LyingCurious Punk Two Cows Grazing Cow, Path Cow in front of the Wetterhorn Grazing Cow, Snow-Covered Mountains Calfs Double-Headed Cow Resting Cow Grazing Cow Bull Three Cows

And now for something completely different: A cow from Ireland, whose ASCII version can be found in the third row below, two mountain sheep from Switzerland, and three geese from Holstein:

Irish Cow Valaisan Sheep Gänsemarsch Israelsdorf

Cows exist longer than graphical computer displays. As a prove take these examples from the Complete Guide To Cows.

           (__)
           (oo)                 U
    /-------\/              /---V
   / |     ||              * |--|                  .
  *  ||----||
     ^^    ^^
  
  Cow at 1 meter.   Cow at 100 meters.    Cow at 10,000 meters.
  
  
                       (__)               (__)
                       (oo)               (oo)
                /-------\/-*       /-------\/
               / |     || \       )*)(\/* /  *
              *  ||----||  *     \ |||/)|/()(
              \/|(/)(/\/(,,/     \)|(/\/|)(/\
                Cow munching     Grass munching
                  on grass           on cow
  
  
                          (__)               (__)
                          (oo)               (oo)
                   /-------\/     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                  / |     ||
                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  
                 Cow in water         Cow in trouble
  
  
                         ________                      _______
                (__)    /        \            (__)    /       \
                (oo)   ( Squeak!! )           (oo)   (  !oMo!  )
         /-------\/  --'\________/     /-------\/  --'\_______/
        / |     ||                    / |     ||
       *  ||----||                   *  ||----||
          ~~    ~~                      ~~    ~~
          A Cow-mon                     Dyslexic
           Mistake                        Cow

Continued in the ...:::/// Complete Guide To Cows \\\:::...