Cows in botched suicide attack on passing vehicles

Spotted by Pavlov's Cat in the Reading Eagle:

Cumru Township police Sgt. James Griffith experienced a first in his career when two cows died after falling onto Route 222 from the Old Lancaster Pike overpass near Gouglersville. Griffith said one cow died on impact while the other was hit by a tractor-trailer about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The cows belonged to a herd of 14 that escaped from a farm on Beavens Road in Brecknock Township, he said. They were first spotted near the Gouglersville Fire Company about 1 p.m. before making their way to the retaining wall at the Old Lancaster Pike overpass, Griffith said.

He was on the scene with the cows at 8:30 p.m., trying to find an owner. While he was farther up the highway, something spooked the cows, sending them barreling toward the end of the wall. Griffith said that once the first of the cows got to the edge and saw the 20- to 30-foot drop, they stopped. However, the other cows rammed into their backs and the momentum created a domino effect, bumping two cows off the edge and onto the highway.

It appears that the author does not know any synomyms for "said", which spoils the narrative tension a bit.
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In other animal news, Bob E spotted this in the Telegraph:

Because these fats – a common component of processed foods – are hard to digest the body has to fill the gut with more bile, altering the balance of bacteria which grow there, the researchers said. One type of bacterium called Bilophila wadsworthia, normally extremely rare in mouse gut, multiplied so much that it accounted for six per cent of all bacteria in the guts of mice fed the high saturated fat diet.

I'm extremely rare in mouse gut. Fascinating.