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Wumpus wrote:With no reference to jazz appreciation, I can probably describe what you see in terms of a fairly dumb cow algorithm.
First off, cows are bred to remove most of the skittishness from them and the cows in the picture probably have enough good experiences to associate humans as causes of moderately-bad to good stuff. Humans are not clear predators to cows on a farm, from the cows' point of view, nor are the musicians making any sudden movements.
Cows are still herd animals though. They will try to bunch together and attend to anything weird because anything weird may be dangerous. When the lead cow heads in a particular direction to focus on something the other cows will tend to follow and also become more interested in the weird activity as they come in range. So the cows, not being particularly hungry at this time, line up at the edge of the fence and stare at the weird activity. It makes low sounds vaguely like a cow, and that's kind of interesting, but the noise is just weird and it's good to be aware of it. Maybe the humans will do something good, or something forceful, but we better watch them because they often do relevant things to us. Moo.
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