Veronika’s improvised grooming device has caused great surprise – but that tells us more about humans than cows, says science writer Helen Pilcher ...

Many animals have been studied and observed to have an incredible capacity for intelligence. Some of the most commonly cited ...

Thinking about best friends might conjure up the idea of humans or perhaps other animals, such as dogs or cats. However, what ...

The 13-year-old Swiss Brown cow lives in the village of Nötsch at the foot of the Carinthia mountains in southern Austria. She's kept as a pet by a local farmer, and can roam her meadow to her heart's ...

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

A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows ...