[xoxoxoBruce]

Did you ever slam your bedroom door and vow to run away and join the circus, or a motorcycle gang, or a hippie commune?
But you didn't did you, ya pussy.
A young heifer in Poland with more guts than you, done did it.

A domesticated cow has surprised Polish naturalists by spending the winter living with a herd of wild bison in the primeval Bialowieza Forest.
The cow "chose freedom" by running away from a farm late last autumn, and has been seen lingering on the fringes of a herd of some 50 bison in the forest on the Belarusian border.

Ornithologist Adam Zbyryt was the first to spot the cow. He dropped his initial idea that this was a mutation when he trained his binoculars on the creature, and saw that it was Limousin cow - a French breed popular in Poland. The young animal appeared healthy, and unthreatened by the larger animals.
Naturalists assumed it would wander back to its pasture once winter set in.
Then biologist Rafal Kowalczyk spotted the cow again this week, still apparently healthy, and keeping pace with the herd.

The unusual friendship could lead to mating, which would contaminate the vulnerable population of about 600 Bialowieza bison with hybrids. "Another danger is that hybrid calves are large, and the cow could die giving birth," the biologist told TVN24.
The interloper is still too young to breed, but it looks like her winter adventure must end in recapture before spring comes.

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