Spotted in south Lanarkshire on the backroads. I was driving about midnight and these two bad boys were in the middle of the road just minding their own business. I tried to drive slower towards them to scare them off the road but they weren’t phased. Honked then horn and they just sort of looked at me like wtaf, so I’m a bit confused. It looked like a mother and its baby, but they were genuinely massive and looked canine. What the hell is it? The second picture is the same as the first but with high contrast.
I agree, The one on the left has a very boar-shaped head, dk if that’s just the lighting but that one certainly looks like a boar. The other is far too big, boars typically don’t get over a meter tall max, so unless it’s a pure chonker I’m not sure. Maybe a coo
Could just be a cow and a calf, if the bigger one is quite large, that would make the most sense. Don't think you'd find a boar walking along right next to a cow like that.
True, you never know tho. I do agree that’s more likely tho. Most boars will immediately run away or even charge if you’re near their weans. Having looked at the bigger animal it does look like a horse/pony/donkey. But the left still stumps me haha. It’s the legs that make it look really weird. It’s got a stocky build like a boar, but that’s likely just perception and low light.
There's a legend, a farmer who was so great his animals grew 10 times the size of normal ones but one day he just disappeared, some say he stalks the country roads at night with his prize haggis. Think you found them
But in all seriousness it looks like highland cows
This is just semantics... Not to say there aren't some feral pigs about, but in the main the free living members of the Sus genus in Britain are wild boar, not feral domesticated pigs. They may have originated from escaped/released captive animals, but taxonomically they are by large wild boar - a wild, native British species. Wild boar may have gone extinct in Britain about 400 years ago (maybe less) but British boar were obviously either the same subspecies or a very similar subspecies to those in mainland Europe so, scientifically, they are almost the same animals that would have been here naturally.
It's hard to tell the size, but if OP thinks these were smaller than cows, then yes I would agree, one on the left looks like it has the face of a pig/boar rather than a cow.
The believed to be extinct great woolly haggis - understood to have been wiped out along with other mega fauna like the giant land sloth and woolly mammoth
If it's South Lanarkshire it's probably a couple of the locals heading home to Larkhall from the pub. They're easily identified by their sectarian singin which is particularly prevalent in the mating season around early July.
There is a road in western Greece where cows roam freely and it backs onto the beach. Many years ago discovered they sleep on sun warmed tarmac at night. That tested the brakes!
Years later Rick Stein met the herd and filmed them.
Ah memories.
Coos
Confused, idefinitely looks like a couple of house hippos, but they aren't found outside Canada, maybe a Canadian imported a breeding pair, which would be concerning, invasive, and I expect they would love to snack on haggis. Call animal control..
Did big one have horns or stumps where horns where as this would suggest a highla d cow. Alao fact they totally ignores you says cow to me also. I was late for college a good few times due to cows in the road haba
Here in America… that’s known as cows in the road.
Some are curious, some are aggressive, they don’t really care about you or your vehicle horn.
I’m not a rancher or 4H or FFA member so I can’t tell you which exact cow breed, apparently from what others have said they’re long haired Highland Coo.
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u/Gwipdit 16d ago
Coo!