You’ve told me much of this before so I was puzzled if it was the same steer. But each time you tell it I learn a little more, lol. I did know and really liked the part about you seeing him years later and that he still recognized you. That’s nice.
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The difference between to individual animals of the exact same species and identical environments is sometimes the same as that of humans.
It starts with early young imprinting and rarely changes.
The big difference between animals and humans is that an intelligent human should learn to recognize that they cannot trust an animal any more than they can trust a human stranger.
Examples include the nutty Enviros that “live with Grizzles” and are “unexpectedly lunchmeat” or the woman who was killed by the “her loving friend” the Killer Whale -
A relatively small four month old dairy heifer will act much like a mad bull in a rodeo of a young child walks up to it.
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