Yep, dumb as a rock. About the only other common country animal that's even less smart is a rabbit, although brown hares aren't exactly University Challenge candidates, either. I've been out for a pub ride before now and had a hare come out of a field entrance in front of me and proceed to lollop along in front of me for nearly half a mile, passing several gates, before finally going back into another field. Lovely animal, but not clever. Those black pheasants turn up from time to time, where I used to work, there was a field out the back, and a pheasant used to turn up after the bird seed I used to put out first thing in the morning. This one was a bit smarter, 'cos he got to recognise me, and would feed from my hand, but there was a beautiful black one as well, which was a lot more wary. Beautiful plumage, possibly from the fjord's… 😉