ft waterfall for the scene in  which Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood (qv)) jumps to escape the  headhunters, a real cow that was attempting to cross upstream went  over the waterfall. Remarkably, it emerged from the fall alive and  the dazed and confused animal banged with the current along rocks  near the bank. Mel Gibson (I) (qv) and crew were certain the cow  was done for, but after a local man swam into the river and calmed  it, the cow climbed up on bank and began eating grass as if nothing  had happened.