Learn how researchers tested a cow’s behavior and what her tool use reveals about animal intelligence.

Cattle are seen as animals with small brains, lacking intelligence and emotion. Veronika the cow has just proven that to be wrong.

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

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

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 ...

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

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Veronika’s story is a reminder of the complex inner lives of animals. The ability to adapt tools for personal use challenges long-standing beliefs about the hierarchy of intelligence among species. It ...

Researchers observed that Veronika typically prefers to use the bristled end of a deck brush when scratching the broad, firm ...

A pet cow has learned to scratch herself with a broom, showing creative problem-solving skills that make it harder to ignore ...