After making a daring escape while being loaded on a truck headed for the slaughterhouse, a cow in Poland, swam to an uninhabited island on a nearby lake and has been living there ever since. Cows are among the most obedient of domestic animals, but when their survival instincts kick in, they can pull of some truly extraordinary things. According to reports, the daring escape took place just as slaughterhouse employees were about to load the cow on to their truck. Her owner, a farmer, had apparently advised the men to use tranquilliser on the animal, but they refused, saying it wasn’t necessary. They were wrong. As soon as the cow saw the truck, she started thrashing about, breaking a farmworker’s arm and leaving him with bruised ribs, before jumping over the metal fence and running across a field to the nearby lake. Witnesses say they saw the cow plunge into the water and swimming all the way to a small uninhabited island. The farmer and his farmhands spent a week t...
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