Sense of direction
To the editor:
Leonard Krishtalka’s column, “Rural Kansas losing its grip” (Journal-World, June 9), paints a sensitive picture of rural Kansas as seen by a Cottonwood 200 cyclist. But Mr. Krishtalka, an evolutionary biologist, finds evolution where there is none when he proposes a “little-known Cow Law,” saying that “Cows in the fields are facing in the same direction. Artificial evolution – selective breeding – has rendered cows dumb. If the lead cow munches toward Topeka, the others follow.”
Most Kansans could tell him – and he could have observed – that the cows are orienting themselves to the wind, not to an imagined “lead cow.”
Dean Bevan,
Lawrence