A Swiss Brown cow has been shown to use tools flexibly and deliberately, challenging long-standing assumptions about the cognitive limits of livestock. In 1982, cartoonist Gary Larson introduced ...

Daphne is a milking yearling and won’t actually be 24 months old until late February. She won her class comfortably at the IDW Youth Show and was then tapped out as Reserve Champion, led by a senior ...

A clever cow called Veronika is the first ever to be recorded using tools – including a brush to scratch her back. The old ...

A recent study that shows how cows can use tools recalls the controversial 1982 cartoon from "The Far Side" comic strip called "Cow Tools." ...

While many other animals have been observed to use tools, this level of sophistication is rare outside of primates like ...

The old Swiss Brown cow has astonished scientists in Austria with her broom, which she uses as a multi-purpose tool.

Scientists investigating video of a cow using tools say their findings could expand the list of animals capable of tool use.

The unlikely star of the study is Veronika, a 13-year-old Swiss Brown cow living in the alpine village of Nötsch in southern ...

For a long time, cows were not believed to be intelligent enough to use tools. However, the very assumption is being ...

Veronika, a pet cow in Austria, has shocked scientists by using a broom to scratch her back. While chimps, crows, dolphins ...

Veronika, a pet Swiss Brown cow, whose clever use of tools suggests cattle are far more intelligent than we’ve given them ...