Literature Review Summarizes What We Know about What Cattle Know
This peer-reviewed paper called The Psychology of Cows, funded by Farm Sanctuary’s “The Someone Project,” highlights the things that cows can do, like:
Act more pessimistically after painful experiences
Recognize and prefer gentle people over aggressive people
Get excited when they solve a puzzle (even more so than when they receive a reward for doing nothing.) Eureka!
There is quite a bit of nuance to this article so I’d appreciate at least a cursory read before commenting!
