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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nytmare" data-source="post: 6067728" data-attributes="member: 55178">As someone who has witnessed several instances of spooked animals (cattle and horses) stampeding, my anecdotal experiences run counter to several of your logical outcomes. That object avoidance software not only gets really faulty when they get scared, but it gets trampled by the train wreck of other guys' object avoidance software pushing from behind.  They pick a direction and run, and that's through whatever is in front of them that is their size or smaller.  That's through fences, walls, trees, outhouses, into, up and over vehicles, and through other livestock.A lone person standing tall is not an obstacle, it's a speed bump.  The same goes for a lone person on horseback. I've seen spooked cattle run through (and do serious damage to) a line of about 20 or 30 pickup trucks and trailers, I'm assuming tents wouldn't do much to stop them.  These are not calm, organized, pedestrians with a sense of personal space.  It's not that the cow in front is going to try to avoid the tree, it's that he's being carried on a wave of other cows and he has no say in the matter.  It's a mob, and the only thing each individual is trying to do is desperately stay afloat and not to get trampled to death by his friends.</blockquote>