We know horses are smarter than cows because cows suffocate in the cold by letting their nostrils freeze up?
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I raise cattle, and this is a myth. In fact I had a calf born one morning when it was 20 below zero. The entire barn was frosted white along with the calf, and it survived. As long as cows have shelter, food, and water they can survive in very cold temperatures.
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Cows are descended from a European species called the Aurock.  The last Aurocks were killed by board German soldiers during WWI.  They just felt like shooting something.
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They're the only animals on earth (other than humans) that have sex for pleasure. How much more intelligent could you get? :D
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As MissA excellently stated, cows (and other ruminants) require significant processing and digestion of cellulose rich material in order to garner nutrition from grass.\n\nEven with all that processing, they still only get some of the energy from the cellulose.  The rest gets passed through the system in the form of the rather high amount of poop that cows produce.\n\nHorses deal with it in another way, passing through vast quantities of low quality forage, getting the minimal amount of nutrition they can, and then passing it through quickly.  That's why horse poop is full of pretty much undigested grasses.  Elephants are the extreme end of this strategy, using massive quantities of forage, with very little nutrition per pound, but by eating so much of it, they're able to get enough energy to survive.\n\nSmaller herbivores, like rabbits, use other methods.  Rabbits practice what is known as refection, in which they actually eat their own feces.  Rather than horking it up as cud, they poop out little green pellets, eat them and send them for processing again.  The little brown pellets we see as rabbit raisins are actually the end result of several passes through the digestive system.\n\nTermites are the masters of cellulose breakdown, however.  They accomplish it with the help of endosymbiotic bacteria that are able to break apart the cellulose on a molecular level, turning it into its component sugars.  Termite guts are literally filled with these bacteria, and without them, the termites would starve.\n\nOur own digestive systems have evolved for an omnivorous diet.  We do pretty well with meat, grains, fruits, and veggies, but simply don't have the length and size of digestion chambers that would be required to break down cellulose.  If we did, we'd be built more like, well, like gorillas - with big, farty guts processing plant material all day.  Of course, some of us are closer to that ability than others already.
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Horses have hair.  Depending on the climate, an Arabian horse will grow a substantial winter coat.\n\nIf you compare an Arabian living in California, with one living in Montana, you can visibly see the difference in their winter coats.
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Cows have a short course hair covering their bodies. They are not furry or fluffy. (well some oddball breads have long hair but I am talking about the average cow)
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Disagree. "Gallop" is a word to describe motion in horses which could be applied to other quadrupeds.\n\nMoths fly... Bumblebees fly, even though their physics and physicality is all wrong.\n\nHumans think, but even mice have been shown to have rudimentary problem-solving abilities which involve thought.\n\nTherefore, I suggest that your proposition is false.
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Easier than walking and quieter than motorized vehicles.\n\nHorses with cow sense can locate straggler cows, and use their strength to putt stuck cows out of mud or whatever.\n\nPlus, they can talk to their horse.\n\nIf they talked to their ATV they would be viewed as strange!
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Of course it can.  They regularly lie on the ground.\nHowever, what you might be thinking of, is the fact that a cow will climb a stairs but never go down one.
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Depends on the person.  I haven't heard any scientific proves which is smarter than the other.
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When the horse exerts a force on the cart, or pulling forward, it is exerting an opposite force on the earth with its feet and this causes an equal and opposite force by pushing the earth backwards.  But because of the very large mass of the earth, that motion is not discernible.\n\nMoral of the story is do not have a smart horse, a dumb ass will do.
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kind of makes you wish cows could fly just for that reason
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Humans are the only animals that are that ignorant.
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On the one hand, Humans ARE animals.\n\nOn the other, we are something "more" than animals because we are sentient and we are significantly more developed. Although all animals have SOME ability to communicate (even if only by stench), and many even know how to make tools, they are still incapable of the advanced feats of humanity.\n\nI suppose that it may by some slim chance be possible that animals are sentient, but I doubt it.
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Probably they had taken a lot more meat than us. Eating meat does grow your brain. Predators do have bigger brains than preys.\n\nTheir brains are bigger because of the need to calculate the risk and to overtake the preys. Cro Magnons had bigger cranial capacities could have been because they desperately need food especially meat to survive the weather. Their physiques had to adapt the condition and made them tacticians.\n\nCro Magnons maybe were smarter than us in surviving the harsh condition of the world bare-handed but I think that they they were no smarter than us in using tools or making great tools. It's like native humans or jungle people or whoever who lives in the wilderness who can bear harsh environment bare-handed compared to us living in cities with great facilities but lack experience in handling harsh conditions bare-handed.
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Equus asinus an inteligent and some times stuborn animal.They are smarter then horses and therefore less willing to be lead into situations you can easily leed a horse in .UNSTABLE ground and steep unsafe passages are to risky to travel over so donkeys often prefere not to and in so doing often saved there owners. Where horses where as dumb as there owners and often ended up injured or killed by there riders and so where many riders .\nTHIS lead to a more inteligent donkey purchased by a more inteligent person ,they lived and stupid people and horses passed away in accidents by going places they should'nt.\nDonkeys are hard working inteligent animals with a strong work ethic they are trusted around children and often seen at circuses and fairs gentle creatures who children love to ride.They are safer then ponys and the choice of circus managers as the choice of animal safist to ride.\nBill clinton was safe to ride and often caught up in conteversy over this .Impeached he was later found to be innocent of all charges BILL only took us in to battle when it was safe to do so and supported by many nations with a clear plan of attack  and withdrawl of troops .he guided us on a safe path often slow to move but once he got going moved quickly and deciesivly along a direct path.\nSo donkeys and bill clintons are inteligent hard  working and some times cautious often thought to be stuborn when in reality carefully examine the situation before leaping in like some-horses a$$. what does a horses hind end and geeorge Bush have in common?
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they are mammals so they breathe air