"Imagine the tools a cow would make. This idea, humorously illustrated in Gary Larson's Far Side cartoon, captures a widespread assumption: cows are neither problem-solvers nor tool users." This may ...

Credit: Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró/Cover Images Gary Larson’s 1982 The Far Side cartoon Cow Tools has long delighted internet jokers - with its oblique anti-humour making it one of his most shared ...

Many animals have been studied and observed to have an incredible capacity for intelligence. Some of the most commonly cited examples of animal intelligence come from animals including primates, ...

(CNN) — How does a cow scratch an itch on its back? An Austrian cow named Veronika has a solution that could change how we view livestock. For the past decade, Veronika has been observed by her owner ...

I am thoroughly unsurprised by this. The findings of planning, novel tool use and tool production that we’ve documented over the last couple decades in some animals I’ll admit to having been surprised ...

Veronika spends her days in the idyllic pastures of southern Austria, where she lives with her family. And every now and then, she picks up a broom to scratch those hard-to-reach areas of her back.

(CNN) — How does a cow scratch an itch on its back? An Austrian cow named Veronika has a solution that could change how we view livestock. For the past decade, Veronika has been observed by her owner ...

Veronika is a brown cow. Her ability to employ tools with multiple uses leaves her in the company of only two known species: humans and chimps. A tool-using bovine has researchers rethinking cow ...