[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
Assuming they can see it, or are smart (dumb?) enough to remember where it is in the dark.
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Cattle have excellent night vision. They move around and graze a lot at night. Cattle do not remember, or test, cattle guards. The guard simply looks like something they shouldn’t step on, so they don’t step on it. (see my post #3)
When I’m working cattle in my barn, there are certain times of the early morning when the sun shines through the slatted lumber of the barn’s sides, making a striped pattern on the barn floor.
The cattle won’t walk there. I have to either put a canvas over the wooden barn siding or wait until the sun gets high enough that the pattern on the floor goes away. Then they’ll walk.
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
Must I contemplate it in the dark, Sensi?
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Until you achieve enlightenment, all your contemplation must be in the dark, grasshopper.
[QUOTE=panache45]
And what happens to small animals that encounter one?
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They fall in. Don’t worry too much if it’s a British critter, though.
Emergency Hedgehog Exit
[QUOTE=Omphaloskeptic]
Until you achieve enlightenment, all your contemplation must be in the dark, grasshopper.
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Sensi is about to discover the sound of One Hand Clapping, Sensi is.
[QUOTE=bluezooky]
It strange not to be connected to the fence, maybe their new but the general idea is to cattle are afraid to cross the grate, I suppose the fence is due to be installed.
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If the guard is not connected to the fence it is more than likely so the rancher can move the cattle through by bypassing the guard.
[QUOTE=jesusson]
If the guard is not connected to the fence it is more than likely so the rancher can move the cattle through by bypassing the guard.
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In that case there would be a gate.
Not that this link sheds much light, but it always amazes me that there is no conceivable subject on which someone has not written a book.