People like to sort: we put things in boxes, we categorize and organize and classify. But the boxes we use are imperfect, especially when it comes to the natural world. Take, for instance, something as simple as what animals eat. Animals that eat plants are herbivores, animals that eat meat are carnivores, while animals like us, who eat anything, are omnivores. Simple.

Yet, in the sad video above, we see a cow eating a baby chicken alive. This video is a few years old, but what it shows—the chicken-eating tendencies of a cow—was anything but a one-off, says Darren Naish for his blog, Tetrapod Zoology. In India, a cow named Lal ate as many as 48 chickens in a month, says Reuters.

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