I mean, I hope so. I’ve just seen this sentiment expressed so often, that cows must be nearly braindead, because you don’t hear them reciting Shakespeare while they’re chewing grass.

I believe, that’s a general herbivore survival strategy to not recite Shakespeare move much while they’re eating, so that they don’t draw attention from predators and conserve energy. At least, similar behaviour can also be seen in deer and bunnies.

But yeah, clearly they’re intelligent enough to have survived until we domesticated them, despite being a big hunk of meat.