A CREATURE viewed by modern society as “little more than a benign food source – the cow – is also shown to be an astute animal capable of solving riddles, with an intellect more traditionally associated with an ape”. Readers in the UK who saw this statement in The Observer newspaper would find it most interesting if true – but quite surprising, to say the least.
“Studies at Oxford University,” the report continues, “found that Betty, a Caledonian heifer, instinctively bent a piece of wire using a gap in her food tray to create a hook that allowed her to scrape food from the bottom of a jar.” That’s one clever…
