This Radiolab episode investigates a bizarre and troubling phenomenon observed on dairy farms in Denmark and the United States: cows refusing to drink water and instead drinking each other’s urine. The story centers on Gregers Christensen, a Danish farmer whose cows exhibited this beha
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