Stop the press stuff, I'm sure, to scientists, but no news at all to people familiar with wily cattle. We're waiting for word on the real questions. As any hiker who's followed a cow trail knows, cattle are unsurpassed at constructing maximum gain with minimum grade. Not for them the anguish of the Matterhorn. The Sea to Sky highway leaves cows unimpressed.
Cows are calm creatures.
No puffing, no huffing, just steady meandering upward avoiding obstacles while munching the occasional clump of grass. I bet researchers assume cows are clumsy. Not a single cow was in sight. Our attention was drawn to crashing and crackling along the dry streambed to our left. Eventually two very noisy cows appeared.