Comment Re:Too much credit to cows ... (Score 1) 105
well, you haven't spent much time around horses, then.
cows can be relied upon to figure their way out of a pasture sooner or later, don't often injure themselves, and are generally fat, dumb and happy.
horses, on the other hand do none of these things. they get scared and break legs (and that's the end for the horse), they seldom manage to get out. cows are downright einsteins in comparison.
Cow's get out because the herd is effectively the animal equivalent of a superfluid; A superfluid will also escape from an unsealed container and it's not remotely intelligent...(except in the case of fiction)