Storm-threatened livestock herds instinctively seek open ground and human shelter.

Evidence

This morning was black with clouds, and a snowstorm was threatened, and about 700 cattle and a number of horses came in long files from the valleys and canyons where they maraud, their instinct teaching them to seek the open and the protection of man. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 229

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• SHARE: A nugget for anyone who keeps animals or grew up on ranch land — cattle reading the sky before a blizzard.