Yvonne (cow) of Zangberg and Stefanskirchen. After her escape, Yvonne was bought by animal-rights activist Michael Aufhauser, who intended to capture her and transport her to his animal sanctuary, "Gut Aiderbichl", a former farm in Deggendorf, Bavaria. Multiple techniques were used to find her and draw her out of hiding. Searchers used infrared cameras, a helicopter, and used other cows as lures, which consequentially also escaped and are being lured with additional cattle. As all attempts to capture Yvonne failed, the cow received increasing attention from the mass media in Germany and Austria and later all over the world. "Bild" tabloid offered
Cow Country (novel) Pynchon. Nate Jones at "Vulture" argued against Pynchon's authorship; he contacted Penguin Books directly and was reportedly told: "We are Thomas Pynchon's publisher and this is not a book by Thomas Pynchon." David Marks at "Writer's Quarterly" drew on certain consistencies to argue that the work is that of short story writer Jacob M. Appel, noting particularly certain thematic similarities between the novel and Appel's "Einstein's Beach House", published within six months of "Cow Country". Marks observed that the website "cowcountry.com" had previously been registered under the name "J. Appel." Laura Well speculates that the novel is actually a collective