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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees ...