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

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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 ...

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

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, ...

Veronika, a pet cow in Austria, has shocked scientists by using a broom to scratch her back. While chimps, crows, dolphins ...

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

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

Raised as a pet in southern Austria, her solution to bothersome horseflies has changed what was known about animal ...

Cows can now be counted among the animals shown to use tools deliberately – and to adapt them to different tasks. In a series ...

She needed a moo-sage. Utilizing implements isn’t limited to primates and brainiac birds. A brown cow named Veronika was ...