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January 26, 2010

101. Can Cows Read Signs?

"Jenny Jago, a scientist at Dexcel in New Zealand, and her colleagues are teaching cows to go through gates using signs to identify the correct one. The cows are beginning to understand what the signs mean. The researchers are trying to determine the criteria upon which the cows are basing their decisions and exploring if the cows are using the cues of shape or color." (Amy Hatkoff, The Inner World of Farm Animals [Steward, Tabori & Chang, New York, 2009],  p. 66.)

It would be difficult, from this simple summary, to decide whether the cows were behaving simply by conditioning associations or whether they could "understand" what the signs mean.

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