Revision as of 12:43, 25 July 2024 edit JMF (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 54,568 edits Undid revision 1236560263 by 117.230.82.13 (talk) rv redundant. We all know that humans are animals. Tag: Undo ← Previous edit		Latest revision as of 10:37, 10 August 2024 edit undo Aminomancer (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 547 edits →‎Cattle stampedes: The suggestion that nobody saw a stampede until the 1800s seems very dubious. People have been herding animals, including cattle, for thousands of years. It's inconceivable that nobody, in all that time, ever spooked a herd of cattle. Tag: Visual edit
Line 7: ==Cattle stampedes== [[File:Cattle stampede^ - geograph.org.uk - 440017.jpg\|thumb\|right\|Cattle stampede]] The animal behavior of stampeding was ~~first noticed~~observed by [[cattle]] ranchers and [[cowboy]]s in the American [[Wild West]]. Large herds of cattle would be managed across wide-open plains, with no fences to contain them. In these unbounded spaces, cattle were able to run freely, and sometimes the whole herd would take off in the same direction unexpectedly. Cowboys developed techniques to deal with this situation and calm the cattle, to stop the stampede and regain control of their herd.<ref name="Cowboys">{{cite web \|title=Cowboys and Cattle Drives \|url=https://www.coreknowledge.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/CKHG-G5-U12-about-the-cattle-frontier.pdf \|publisher=The Core Knowledge Foundation \|access-date=16 May 2023}}</ref><ref name="Westward">{{cite web \|title=The Cattle Drive and Westward Expansion \|url=https://agclassroom.org/matrix/lesson/268/ \|publisher=National Agriculture in the Classroom \|access-date=16 May 2023}}</ref> The term "stampede" came from the Mexican Spanish term ''estampida'' ('an uproar').<ref>{{cite web \|title=stampede \|url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/stampede \|website=Online Etymology Dictionary \|access-date=16 May 2023}}</ref> Cattle herds tended to be nervous, and any unusual occurrence, particularly a sudden or unexpected noise, could scare the cattle and kick off a stampede. Things such as a gunshot, a lightning strike, a clap of thunder, someone jumping off a horse, a horse shaking itself, or even a tumbleweed being blown into the herd have been known to cause stampedes.<ref name="Ward">Fay E. Ward, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DOq4phLykqcC&pg=PA28 The cowboy at work], Courier Dover Publications, 2003, {{ISBN\|0-486-42699-8}} p. 28</ref><ref name="Cowboys" /><ref name="Westward" />

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