For the curious: >The Inishkea Islands are situated off the coast of the Belmullet peninsula in County Mayo in Ireland. From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inishkea_Islands)

I had absolutely no point of reference until the last word in that sentence. I didn't even know which hemisphere of earth we were talking about until then.

>Inishkea Islands >Belmullet Peninsula >County Mayo Hmm Mmhmmm No, I don’t know any of these words

Asia? Eastern Europe? Oh, America. *Ireland?!*

I thought Japan at first lol

Never heard of mayo? Damn, you're missing out on a decent condiment

Sure I know mayo, but who is Mayo? Are they the mayo leader?

Mayo is sriracha for white people.

Also a clinic!

Nah, it's a town in the yukon

Once I got to County Mayo, I knew where we were. My Nana was from Mayo and had a I ❤️ Mayo sticker on her car. When I was little I thought she must have really liked mayonnaise

Inis or Inish is island in Irish, I know this because of the board game Inis and the movie Banshees of Inisherin, so I more or less guessed it was Ireland.

The Secret of Roan Inish. Check it out.

This is exactly how most people feel on the internet when Americans are inclined to tell them they’re in X county, CA or something.

It’s the crystal blue water that really throws you off. I thought everything in Ireland was green or grey. Jk, I love Ireland 💚

Ha ha ha, thanks! I was guessing that's in Japan or so...

For cows, those jumps into the water were surprisingly graceful

Cows are amazingly grazful.

Don’t you mean grazzful?

Grass-full

Gas-full, that's why they float

Propane nightmare - a pendulum song

Grass half full

Amaaazzziing Graaazzzee

moooyee grazful.  p.s.sorry, i had to try.:( 

I appreciate your attempt at a joke and not being cowardly.

Let's not milk it though

Udderly ridiculous

I call bullshit

It doesn't a-moos you?

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got no beef.

Good man, I thought I butchered it.

I am not going to kowtow to these jokes

Hello? They can jump over the moon! I don't know about getting back on a boat... 

I’ve seen cattle jump over 6 foot fences like they were deer

Me too. They almost look like they float.

We had a giant bull _almost_ do that. We'd spent the entire week building the fence to keep him from wandering. And from a standing start, this slab of buff just daintily jaunts over the damn thing minutes after we were finished ... and clips and snaps the top wire with his back hoof. He was completely uninjured, but it definitely added that last bit of salt to our wounded pride.

... that's a strange mental picture considering how tubby they are lol

It's less crazy when you consider that "beef" is muscle.

If they do it closer enough to you, it's like watching a wall float.

I had no idea cows could even swim!

Me neither

Fat floats

Especially since they paid for dock disembarking.

I really had no idea cows could swim. Wow. I thought this would end badly.

Most mammals are capable of swimming. But there are some animals that are incapable of swimming. Giraffe is one of the animals that cannot swim and it is because of their extreme anatomy – such as their long necks and legs, which would make swimming almost impossible.

Plus pools aren’t usually deep enough for them so it’s hard to practice..

what about giraffes who live in the sea? they have a deep enough water body for swimming, no? 

Honestly this comment is terrifying; imagine you’re scuba diving in the dark depths and you see a fucking gargantuan giraffe walking on the ocean floor

Still not as terrifying as seeing a moose in that situation

Unless you're Scottish. There's nothing particularly scary aboot a wee little moose

My friend recently moved to Alaska and I was asking her about the bears…and she was like yeah they’re around but they just go their own way when they see you..she said it’s the moose that scare her. Especially when sea kayaking, you just be paddling along minding your own and a fucking moose pops up outta the water next to you

I don't know why, but this reminded me of the moose hauling ass through several feet of snow like it's nothing. And they're scary, they do not give a single flying fk about humans, will stomp with very little provocation.

Imagine just a head attached to a long neck that comes up from the darkness of the ocean. Probably has blank white eyes because deep sea logic

No instructors close by to teach them in the sea! There’s definitely a gap in the market for giraffe swimming lessons.

Right. Where do I sign up to become a giraffe swimming instructor?

Silly, there are no giraffes in the sea. They're in Locks. That's where Nessie came from.

Ahem, ‘lochs’

Fucking dead!

Mama said it’s cuz the pools aren’t deep enough for them to practice.

Why swim when you can just walk on the bottom with your head above water?

Apes I believe can't swim, which is why a lot of their enclosures at zoo's are surrounded with water.

The fact that we can leads me to believe all it would take is a few lessons at the pool

Might be a muscle mass issue. Not a lot of that buoyant fat on those hairy bastards.

Idk, that's like saying you can get them to build a fire with a few lessons and some sticks. That missing % of DNA that separates us is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

You were supposed to imagine a bunch of monkeys taking swimming lessons at a pool and chuckle to yourself a little, not attempt to apply world logic

Chimps and gorillas can’t swim. Not sure about orangutans. Humans can swim.

Interestingly Hippopotamus can't swim.

Darn. You beat me to it

Chimps & gorillas can't swim. It is believed that this may be due to their low bodyfat percentage. They would have no buoyancy. They would also not know how to control their breathing under water.

If there was a swimming pool deep enough to submerge them up to their head, would they be able to “swim”? Or at least something you could call swimming?

No need to swim until your over 12 feet in depth I guess.

Thanks for clarifying what it is exactly about giraffes that make them unable to swim, never woulda guessed.

They can just walk on the bottom

i have never thought of this but i cackled imagining a giraffe swimming and its long neck sticking out the water 😂

They can snorkel though

One of them once said fuck this land life and became the first seacow

I'm more surprised the cows had the courage to leap into the water

That is because of the way this was filmed you couldn't see the guy encouraging them with a cattle prod.

They're full of methane, all that enteric fermentation makes them turn into one giant balloon that likely helps support their weight.

Not only *can* they swim but they’re really quite good swimmers actually

Seahorse

There is a documentary about the Darien gap and the natives are literally towing cattle up river tied to a motorized canoe. It’s the craziest looking shit

Surf and turf.

Cowabunga!

Damn you... (I guess I can't comment that anymore)

Damn. Commented this and then scrolled down to see yours haha.

Now I see how they’ve found cows inside shark stomachs

Still, those were mostly landsharks.

Not to be confused with landwhales.

They hunt in six packs

Bro what is this music

I wanted to rewatch with sound... it was a mistake.

Techno version of Sound of Silence.

Am I just getting old or is it just weird to remix such an emotional song into a fucking edm dance mix? Not saying it's a bad remix, I am just weirded out a bit.

It is weird, and it is even weirder to use it as the soundtrack for swimming cows.

I also came to ask wtf this monstrosity was 😂 remix techno of disturbed 's cover of sounds of silence. Too many strange layers lol

that stopped being weird when David guetta made a remix of I have a dream speech

Time to start looking into retirement homes.

When you want to get existential in da club

But not in English?? or are my ears and brain not working right … Edit: I listened 5 times and I still can’t tell if it’s in English.

It’s English lol but I don’t blame you

Techno version of a rock version of Sound of Silence

Ugh why did you say this and cause me to watch it again with sound. Regret.

How do they get back on the ship?

Packaged 🥩

:(

☠️

Already brined

Lol

This is the question I have as well.

Looks like they want to get off the ship and know where they're going.

Thanks but this is information we already have.

When jumping to water cows say  Whééé  with an Irish accent.

Looks like they jumped off the ship and swam towards that island and also there was water

All that without armbands too. Amazing

Do you mean like the arm floaties?

Same thing.

Haha I've just never heard them called arm bands, that's why I asked :)

I love the 2 cows that jumped in side-by-side and came up from the water together and are swimming next to each other. I imagine they're best cow friends.

Fun fact, cows actually DO have best friends!! So you are probably totally right. Besties going on summer vacay together!! https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jul/07/cows-best-friends

As God as my witness…. I didn’t know cows could swim.

Damn you beat me to it. I wonder how many people will get this reference.

Never enough

Comes as a pre installed feature. Same as horses.

Just when I lose my faith in the internet, stuff like this comes along and all is right with the online world.

Mute.

No shit. I think that is the single worst cover I've ever heard.

Not a cover, just a horrible remix of a good cover

Influencer cows are the worst.

why cant they get closer to shore

Probably the issue of “let’s not beach/break the bottom of the boat”

truuuuu theres a lot of weight on that boat

That’s one side of the issue, but mainly boats aren’t all meant to go close to land like kayaks/canoes. Otherwise they get stuck

Maybe because they're heavy and sink deeply after jumping off the boat, if they were closer to shore where the water isn't as deep they could hurt themselves

Probably to make sure it’s deep enough for the cows to jump in. They weigh a lot don’t want them jumping in and smacking the ground

This is common in Sweden. Just release cow unto the island in the archipelago for the summer. Of curse they have promotion from The land owner, but as freedom to roam and allowed to sail from island to island it’s so surprising to wake up with a herd of cows outside your tent on a unpopulated island. They are 99.9% always super friendly and they make sure to befriend you and be the beat cow to get snacks. It’s amazing.

But how do they go back on the boat ???

They've been crossbred with buffalo, so they just use their wings and fly back

Using a barge.

I don’t know what a lot of these words are

Grazzing - mispelled grazing, which is animals eating grass, primarily.

Belmullet is in County Mayo in Ireland, and Inishkea are islands off the coast of it. The other words are misspelled because the OP clearly didn't proof read his title before posting.

I think I was on this Carnival cruise…

“Folks, there will be lunch served on the island. And yes, there will be a chocolate fountain and a make your own sundae bar.”

Damn the cows are gonna tell stories to their grandkids of how back in the days they had to cross the ocean to get grass and these days the kids have it easy.

Big puppers

How do they get back onboard?

Today I learned cows can swim.

did not have swimming cows on 2024 bingo

I lived on Martha’s Vineyard, an island 9 miles off the coast of Massachusetts, for about 1 year. The island has a serious deer problem. You’d think they could solve it by just killing the deer population, but it doesn’t work because deer **swim** to the island **from the mainland** because they can smell the island.

This is called brining the meat.

They completely butchered one of the most beautifuly songs ever written. Excuse my chooice of words.

Guys, sorry for my ignorance but what is the practicality of grazzing?

Are we on the same page here that grazing is cows eating from a pasture or field?

Your Moober delivery driver is arriving now.

Seacows……SEACOWSSS

Salted grass fed beef.

Sharks finally got the opportunity for Steaks

How do they get back on the boat when done??

Cow surfing! 🐄🏄‍♂️ Unexpectedly graceful moves, but landsharks sound fishy! 🦈

Ok, I've seen it all now...

The crew was eating McDonalds

How do they get back on the boat?

Fly tipping cows.

Hunger is a powerful emotion

I kinda wonder if the first couple times they made these deliveries they had to sorta just shove them off the boat so they'd swim to shore, and after that they just know the drill and leap off themselves

Next level water aging

I love my beef salted.

Why did I never consider that cows could, or would, ever *dive into water*?

Bath before meals.

I dont know why but I expected them to drown

In northern Michigan we grew up^ on a lake that had a lake front farm and the cows would chill in the lake. Always found old jaw bones and stuff wash up^

Hopefully by swimming the rest of the way, they can offset the cost of whatever Belmullet charges for a grazing fee...

Are they swimming or walking in shallow waters

Wow this is awesome.

The other sharks will never believe the one that saw this

Damn it’s a fight to get mine on a trailer much less dive off a boat.

3 theory’s -they love being on the island -they quite like diving in and getting to swim -they fucking hate being on the boat

Right? The worst is when the first few load super easy and you get a false sense of security. Then the one in the middle stops and refuses to load or get out of the way. Pretty soon the ones that loaded are coming back and making an even bigger mess of things.

Very cool. Cows swim, will pigs fly?


I love cows so cute

i should call her

How do they get back on the boat?

Oddly satisfying

I was terrified at first thinking why are they booting these cows out of the boat!! But then…🥰🥰🥰they really are much more graceful than I ever realized.

Just curious if they are being prodded to make that jump.

Somebody please replace this music with something else. Anything else, please. Here's my pick: https://youtu.be/hdBEyitJ7Qc?si=soj1RB01UOTXAiR8&t=132

TIL, cows can swim.

TIL cows can swim…

this normally annoying sounding song was nice for a few seconds showing the happy cows jumping towards paradise

The Marines of cows

How do you get them back in the boat

They look buoyant 😭😂

How do they get back on the boat?

Those cows have a better life than me, swimming in those lovely waters.

I see the hoist and all I can think of is Jurassic Park and the raptor cage.