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

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

Researchers in Austria detailed the unusual case of the first cow to be documented using tools -- specifically, a brush she ...

The unexpected observation of a cow using a broom to scratch herself isn't necessarily surprising, but it expands our ...

NÖTSCH IM GAILTAL, Austria (WFLA) — A video of a cow scratching herself with a broom shocked viewers and researchers due to the cow’s clever ability to use tools as an itch-relieving innovation. The ...

Veronika the cow uses a brush as a tool to scratch herself, revealing rare problem-solving skills and expanding what we know ...

A pet cow named Veronika uses a tool in a surprisingly sophisticated way—possibly because she has been allowed to live her ...

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 ...

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.

A wolf was filmed pulling bait out of a submerged crab trap — with some experts howling with glee that it could be the first documented evidence of the beasts using tools. The female wolf was recently ...

A paper, which was published in Current Biology on Monday, is the first scientific paper to describe tool use in cattle, ...