When I was reading the page, the first fact that caught my attention was that according to the Washington Post, “In 2009, cattle became one of the first livestock animals to have a fully mapped genome.” (Brown, 2009) Considering cows have been around for so long, this wasn’t much of a surprise, it was still interesting. Upon reading the article, I discovered that cows have roughly 22,000 genes. This caught my attention, as I never realized that despite coming across as fairly boring, the cow is a very complex animal on the inside. I found this information to be very worthy of a mention on the cow Wikipedia page. …show more content…
As I read further in the article, I also learned when scientists challenged cows with various maze tests, they performed well, as it says “The efficient performance in the radial and parallel mazes indicates that cattle have an accurate spatial memory.” (Bailey, Rittenhouse, 1989) Which was another piece of information that could’ve been useful on the Wikipedia