Fearless Interest. Lombok Cows, Bos javanicus, Kerandangan Creek, Kerandangan, Lombok, Indonesia
Under grey skies I made my way along the Kerandangan Creek to the black-sandy beach of the Lombok Strait. Few people do that and these Lombok Cows, Bos javanicus, seem to be mildly amused as they lift their heads together from grazing under the Coconut Palms.
Cows can think and they have memory as well. But whether they communicate their 'history' down through the ages seems unlikely. Else these beautiful brown creatures might have feared for their lives from a Westerner like myself. Mads Lange (1807-1856), a Danish trader making good in the East - styled the King of Bali (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/26169373045/in/photoli...) - made his fortune in part by butchering Cows for the Dutch colonial army's so-called 'ding-ding', importing many of them from Lombok (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/14318007974/in/photoli...).
Fearless Interest. Lombok Cows, Bos javanicus, Kerandangan Creek, Kerandangan, Lombok, Indonesia
Under grey skies I made my way along the Kerandangan Creek to the black-sandy beach of the Lombok Strait. Few people do that and these Lombok Cows, Bos javanicus, seem to be mildly amused as they lift their heads together from grazing under the Coconut Palms.
Cows can think and they have memory as well. But whether they communicate their 'history' down through the ages seems unlikely. Else these beautiful brown creatures might have feared for their lives from a Westerner like myself. Mads Lange (1807-1856), a Danish trader making good in the East - styled the King of Bali (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/26169373045/in/photoli...) - made his fortune in part by butchering Cows for the Dutch colonial army's so-called 'ding-ding', importing many of them from Lombok (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/14318007974/in/photoli...).