Cows injured during their summer sojourn in the high Swiss Alpine meadows have received airlifts down the mountain.
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To be fair, maybe not much to imagine. They found some grass and proceeded to graze, pretty much putting the event behind them. Not much bandwidth for pondering stuff.
In recent years, though, researchers have come to a startling conclusion – hare numbers fall from their peak not just because predators eat too many of them. There's another factor: chronic stress from living surrounded by killers causes mother hares to eat less food and bear fewer babies. The trauma of living through repeated predator chases triggers lasting changes in brain chemistry that parallel those seen in the brains of traumatised people. Those changes keep the hares from reproducing at normal levels, even after their predators have died off.