Cows can now be counted among the animals shown to use tools deliberately – and to adapt them to different tasks. In a series ...

Her owner, Witgar Wiegele, is an organic farmer and baker who keeps the cow as a pet. With Wiegele’s permission, they conducted a series of randomized trials with a deck scrub broom, chosen for its ...

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

Veronika, a cow living in an idyllic mountain village in the Austrian countryside, has spent years perfecting the art of ...

A pet cow in Austria named Veronika picks up sticks with her mouth and uses them to scratch herself—which a team at ...

A clever card trick that feels completely random, using dice to determine the outcome. The spectator makes every decision, ...

A pet cow in Austria started using a broom to scratch herself — the first ever documented case of bovine tool use.

Veronika has officially put cows in one of biology’s most exclusive circles: the flexible tool users club. While scientists ...

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

Researchers report the first documented case of tool use in cattle, based on a Swiss Brown cow named Veronika who doesn’t just grab an object and rub it against herself.

In 1982, cartoonist Gary Larson published a now-iconic "Far Side" comic titled "Cow Tools." In it, a cow stands proudly ...

A new study has challenged assumptions about livestock intelligence by documenting the first known ...