Tag Archives: Herding

The future of ranching might rumble across Wyoming’s sagebrush on tank tracks, equipped with cameras and sensors instead of spurs and lassos. At Mississippi State University, researcher Marcus McGee has been testing a 4-foot-by-4-foot robotic platform called the Warthog that can herd cattle with surprising effectiveness. The results from his trials at the university’s Bearden Dairy Research Center suggest that …

Paleontologists say they have discovered the 76-million-year-old footprints of a ceratopsian dinosaur-dominated herd in Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada. The discovery provides the first evidence of mixed-species herding behavior in dinosaurs, similar to how modern wildebeest and zebra travel together on the African plains. A herd of ceratopsians (Styracosaurus albertensis) accompanied by an ankylosaur (Euplocephalus tutus) walk through an …