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Scientists have been forced to rethink the intelligence of cattle after an Austrian cow named Veronika displayed ...

Utilizing implements isn’t limited to primates and brainiac birds. A brown cow named Veronika was documented using tools with ...

Chimpanzees, New Caledonian crows – and now cows. The list of animals that use tools grew a little longer this ...

Researchers have documented the tool-using abilities of an Austrian cow named Veronika, challenging assumptions about bovine intelligence.

Veronika the Austrian cow adapts the placement of a tool depending where on her body she has an itch, and challenges assumptions about cattle smarts in the process.

Cows itch, just like us. But Veronika the cow takes things into her own hands. Or rather: into her mouth. Scientists say it’s ...

Researchers report the first documented case of tool use in cattle, based on a Swiss Brown cow named Veronika who doesn’t just grab an object and rub it against herself.

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

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Veronika, a brown Swiss cow from the Austrian village of Carinthia, shocked researchers with the first documented case of a ...

Gary Larson's 1982 The Far Side cartoon Cow Tools has long delighted internet jokers - with its oblique anti-humour making it ...