But and it's a huge but, what does it prove, youve seen cows touching wood, that is all.My back door looks out over fields full of cows ( i'll post a pic if you like) if it is a myth then the cows must believe it too.
They also form a circle around a telegraph post ( about 100 of them) and walk up one by one and touch it with their nose, then get back in the circle until they are all done then leave together.
You can tell me thats not true too. They do it often though and i havbe seen it dozens of times with my own eyes so it matters not what you say.
I've been a fisherman since I was 8 and have spent hundreds of rainy days by rivers and lakes, in fields filled to the gunnels with cows, and half the time the cows will not all be doing the same thing twice in a row, More than that, a group of cows may be doing different things, standing in the rain, or in the river or next to a wire fence or under a hedge or tree, or even wandering hither thither and yon, as the rain fell. Ive lost count of the times Ive seen cows stood in a field in the pouring rain and then lay down as the sun came out.
You may as well say Cows eat grass when it rains unless they dont and if they dont eat grass they will.
Humans like patterns, they like order, that is how all the Optical illusions work, the human brain has evolved to see/recognise patterns even when there is none. We see things that are only there because we wish that they are. Often we mistake the human biological imperative, for all kinds of things.
Love for example Love is just a biological imperative to reproduce and pass on the genes, The chemicals involved are not that uncommon, testosterone, dopamine norpenephrin, vasopressin, oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin. .