This one weird trick can save cattle from lions biting their throats and killing them. From 2015 to 2018, scientists from the University of New South Wales in Australia, working with the Botswana ...

Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

A four-year study revealed how painting eyes on the backsides of livestock can protect them from attack. Photo: Courtesy. What if an animal looks, moos and munches like a cow but struts around like a ...

A conservation biologist has come up with a novel method for protecting cattle from being hunted by African lions: paint eyes on their butts. The lions will think their intended prey has seen them and ...

In Botswana, Africa, researchers have painted eyes on the rumps of cattle to prevent lions and other predators from attacking. Early trials were effective. According to a paper the researchers ...