Did the earth moo-ve for you?

Cows are rubbish at detecting earthquakes thereby kiboshing the chances of advanced bovine earthquake prediction arrays.

Researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences had fitted “advanced GPS sensors and animal monitoring devices” to eight cattle. They noted that during Sweden’s December 16 earthquake last year “only two of the eight cows bearing the monitoring equipment stood up during or a minute before the tremors began” despite being only five kilometres from the epicentre. “Two other cows were already standing, while another two were lying down before, during, and after the quake. One cow actually sat down at the exact second that the earth began shaking, and the eighth cow’s equipment malfunctioned”.

By way of The Register