Giant cow maze appears in fieldThere's nothing especially unexpected about finding a cow in a field. Fields, after all, are where cows generally live.
But finding a cow that's actually made out of a field… that's a little more uncommon.
Still, that's what you'll find in this German field, located in the Marienfelde area south-west of Berlin. The corn and hemp of the field has been cut into the shape of a giant cow-shaped labyrinth, allowing careless ramblers the opportunity to get lost inside a massive representation of the bovine digestive system.
The cow-labyrinth was created by Germany's Federal Institute of Risk Assessment - a government body dedicated to examining the dangers posed by products in everyday life, from foods to cosmetics - in order to raise awareness of healthy eating and the potential dangers from harmful substances in food - as well as to explain the digestion process in the stomach of a cow.
Exactly how it achieves these rather diverse goals is not, at the time of writing, entirely apparent - although we must admit that a few hours spent trying to find your way out of an enormous cow's gastrointestinal tract made out of hemp would probably concentrate your mind on cow digestion issues fairly well.