Complex and Social Dairy cows, like all animals commonly used for food, are complex, sensitive, and highly social animals. Each cow has her own personality and preferences. Although somewhat timid, cows are quite inquisitive and will closely investigate anything new in their environment. Cows are very responsive to the treatment they receive and are able to remember a bad experience for years afterward. Cows have varied tastes in music.
Some herds prefer country-western or opera, while others like rock and roll.
Cows can act heroically. She mooed loudly and attacked the animal with her horns, saving the farmer's life. She walked more than thirty miles, crossing barbed-wire fences, a river, and several highways, despite driving rain. All modern breeds of cattle are descended from the now-extinct aurochs, wild cattle of Europe and the Near East who had been domesticated by 6500 b.c. As herd animals, cows have a cooperative nature.