brain melt

My brain is officially fried.

Dogs, cats, horses.....and on to cows:

It is now well established that domestic animals construct responses to their environment that depend on experience and on integration of several features of the environment, including social partners.

source:
Ontogeny of social awareness in domestic herbivores
I. Veissier a,), A. Boissy a, R. Nowak b, P. Orgeur b,
P. Poindron
Applied Animal Behaviour Science 57 1998.233–245