How intelligent are cows?

Yes, they can do all of those things. I have a pet cow. I got her as a calf when I was very young, so I grew up with her like most children do dogs or cats. Her name is Rosie and she responds to this whenever we speak to her. I can call her over like anyone can their dog. I believe she recognizes my face, because she will directly come to me when I am in a group of people. She understands that I am her owner and she is my pet. She associates certain words with certain things. I feed her apples and when I say "apple" she immediately starts licking my hand, knowing that I will give her an apple to eat. She acts much like a dog. Perhaps I just have a weird or intelligent cow, but this is all coming from experience. I think cows are much smarter than people give them credit for.

They can do all of the above actually, although it might not be common.

They do know the people who commonly work with them, I wander through our barn and they're fine, other people do so and unless it's milking time the cows notice something's up.

We've recently seen a great example of one being able to recognize people. We bought some recently freshened heifers, and had one that was a little nervous about being milked. We had one (former) employee who did not take kindly to his, and gave her a reason to be nervous. Within 2 weeks of us getting rid of him that cow noticed he was gone and everyone else was nice to her and decided she likes everyone else.

They can recognize words after a while, usually if it's either their name, or a swear word they think is their name.

They are very much creatures of habit, and get very distracted if their routine is thrown off. I can tell they know if a milking time is off by more than 10 minutes, early they lay there and look at you funny, and late they're crowded by the gate wondering where you are. We just put some plastic strips over the parlor's exit door for the winter to keep the heat in, all the older cows need to stop and sniff the new thing, all of the younger ones think it's razor blades of death or something. Just a small change in routine that can mess with them.

This is what I saw,

One day when I was looking through the window I saw a crow on a branch of a tree. Below the tree there was a thorny shrub and in between the leaves of the shrub there laid a small plum. The crow took a light weight rope from the ground and made it like a model of the rope which is used to hang. I don't know how to describe it in words but I was really excited on seeing the crow eating the plum using a rope. Really crows are very intelligent.

Some are a little too smart for their own good, figuring out how to open gates, getting into the feed, over eating and then foundering or dying from acidosis.

The smartest domestic animal is not swine or horses, but believe it or not, sheep. A recent Scottish study found that sheep can remember and recognize up to 150 different sheep faces for up to 2 years since they last saw them. They can also out problem solve all other domestic animals as well. At first they had no luck at all and started thinking that sheep were stupid, as many people do. When they started baiting their problems with feed, the sheep were then willing to cooperate. They can recognize shapes, colors and problem solve ways to get to the eats.

For many years I figured my sheep were either really smart or really stupid, but I wasn't sure which. I now know it's the former. One thing to remember is that pretty much all ruminants domestic and wild the world over are prey species and function as such. Their eyes are widely spaced, which reduces depth perception, but that's not a problem because grass is easy to sneak up on. Wide spaced eyes allow them to survey a wider area for predators. On the other hand, predators have more closely set eyes, giving them good depth perception, which is needed for hunting. When in bright sunlight, prey species are very reluctant to go into a dark area, even if it is familiar like a barn. That's because predators prefer to hide in the dark before attacking and prey animals know that. Prey species seem very nonchalant when people or even predators are at a distance and easily seen. When the predator becomes hidden behind something, that's when the prey becomes wary and nervous. Or when the prey intrudes into their "safety zone", the line or distance that separates time to flee from the time that's too short to flee. Also remember that all animals function based on four things, eat, sleep, mate and raise/protect young. Sure, an animal like a dog may like their ears scratched, etc, but animals, especially lower mammals (excepting apes, etc) have no concept of generosity, kindness, delayed gratification, family after young reaches adulthood (a young bull will try to kill its father and vice versa when competing for females) and so on. That's why they are called dumb animals, they aren't necessarily dumb as in stupid, but dumb as in unable to experience human emotions.

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"Cows very often know the difference between their human owners and a predator like a wolf, a cougar a bear or a coyote, and those cows that know that humans are not a threat are docile around humans, but not around predators. Some cattle producers though, may have some cows that will show aggression towards a human because it's been ingrained in her, from what her mother has done (most likely) that humans can also be a threat and should not be trusted. (For producers who don't want aggressive cows in their herd, these types of cows should be culled, as well as their daughters, as it is often believed that aggression/docility towards humans can be genetically linked).

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They are intelligent animals, but not as smart as apes or dogs.

Smart, but they only cogitate as they ruminate.

COW only means FEMALE....which friggin' "cow" whale elk walrus....?

CATTLE/bovines...are as mindless as any other herbivore. No animal can cogitate.

Not very as they try to camoflage in a green field in black and white

well for starters they don,t need sex education, they don,t kill their own kind and they don,t poison themselves on purpose.