Cows can be pessimistic and it affects their ability to cope with stress: UBC study

VANCOUVER — New research from the University of British Columbia suggests dairy cows show personality traits like pessimism and optimism from a young age and their inherent outlook can predict their ability to cope with stress.
Benjamin Lecorps, a PhD student in the animal welfare program, says the study has implications for animal welfare and suggests some commonalities between the human and animal worlds.
Lecorps’s study, published last month in Scientific Reports, tested how calve