It's startling the first time you hear a cow speak the human language. Now let's get back to the point. I've heard more questions than I can count from cow lovers who've asked, "Is it the cow or the cow lover?" and the answer is...absolutely not!
What we see here is a cow that's trying to be friendly and inviting. Asking for food and affection is a very human instinct. It's a basic right, and it was all the rage in our own time - when it wasn't even in our language. Now cows are domesticated beasts, and they are still wild animals. Like many of these animals, they have instincts, as their ancestors did. It could be that cows and humans simply have a lot in common They might even have something in common that we didn't know before, and they are the perfect example of how our thoughts and understanding of our own vernacular have shaped our perception or experiences of the natural world. And as long as we believe such things, we can't help but have empathy with them. When, in fact, both are pretty much the same animal.