Scientists are rethinking what cattle are capable of after an Austrian cow named Veronika was found to use tools with ...

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This is the first recorded instance of a bovine using tools from her environment to relieve an itch—leaving scientists ...

Around ten years ago, an organic farmer and baker in a small Austrian town noticed that his pet cow would use sticks to ...

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

Austrian researchers say they've found the first known example of tool use by cattle, courtesy of a Swiss-Brown cow named ...

Veronika the brown cow's dexterous and graceful tool use upends long-held assumptions about the intelligence of cows, say ...

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

A very clever cow has learned to use sticks to scratch herself, the first time sophisticated tool use has been seen in ...

A new study is the first to describe tool use in a cow. It could be evidence that livestock has higher cognitive capabilities than once thought, researchers say.

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