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Cows Are Way More Intelligent Than You
Probably Thought

They might be slow movers, but they're quick thinkers. When we think about our
most intelligent friends in the animal kingdom, species like orangutans,
dolphins, elephants and octopuses are likely to come to mind.

Dairy cows probably don't
make the list. But research, including a new study conducted by an
undergraduate student in Australia, suggests these farm animals may be smarter
than we give them credit for.

Alexandra Green, a
21-year-old student at the University of Sydney, developed a test that provides
evidence of cows' sophisticated cognitive abilities. Green found that dairy
cows could follow sound through a maze in order to find food, suggesting
heightened executive function and decision-making abilities.

These capabilities shouldn't
be surprising to us, says zoologist Dr. Daniel Weary, a professor in the Animal
Welfare Program at the University of British Columbia.

"These are highly
developed mammals that have been solving problems for a long, long time,"
he told The Huffington Post. "If anything, it reflects poorly on us that
we're surprised that these animals are smart. Of course these animals are
smart."

Mastering the maze

For the experiment, Green
trained six dairy cows to navigate a large T-shaped maze modeled after smaller
mazes used on mice and rats. The cows were trained to follow sound through the
maze in order to get to their food.

Four out of the six heifers
nailed the test, while the other two scored 75 percent. One cow was able to
find the food in under 20 seconds on the first day of learning the maze,
suggesting intelligence levels can vary widely between animals.

"They would turn their
heads to where the sound was," Green told New Zealand Farmer. "They
would really think about it, whereas in the beginning they were making a
guess."

The findings may have some
important implications for the cattle industry, Cameron Clark, a research
fellow at the University of Sydney, told the publication. For instance, farmers
might be able to use sound to train their cattle to come in for milking,
reducing manual labor and improving efficiency. They might even be able to
train individual cows to respond to different sounds, allowing the farmers to
call in the livestock on demand.

Raising our livestock with
respect

In a study conducted last
year, Weary showed that dairy cows possess remarkable emotional sensitivity.
The cows he studied were deeply affected by emotional and physical pain of
early separation from their mothers and dehorning, which changed the brain in a
way that led to a negative cognitive bias akin to pessimism.

Weary and colleagues also
found that dairy cows housed in isolation, which is common practice in farming,
exhibit anxiety and perform poorly on cognitive tests.

These and other findings
raise some ethical questions about how we treat cattle that are raised for
dairy and beef, which are often raised in isolation and in inhumane conditions.

Weary said he would like
increased knowledge and awareness to translate to increased respect and more
humane living conditions for these animals.

"I
hope we learn more about how interesting and smart these animals are," he
said. "If we are going to use these animals for our own ends, we should
treat them with respect, and work hard so we can give them what they need and
make sure they have a good life that we're proud of."