Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many animals have been studied and observed to have an incredible capacity for intelligence. Some of the most commonly cited ...

Veronika is a brown cow. Her ability to employ tools with multiple uses leaves her in the company of only two known species: ...

A Swiss Brown cow has been shown to use tools flexibly and deliberately, challenging long-standing assumptions about the cognitive limits of livestock. In 1982, cartoonist Gary Larson introduced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study has challenged assumptions about livestock intelligence by documenting the first known instance of a cow using tools.

An Austrian cow named Veronika can use different parts of a wooden push broom to scratch herself, in the first verified instance of cattle using tools, cognitive biologists reported Monday in the ...

A new landmark paper has revealed that problem-solving using tools is not a trait restricted to apes and birds, despite ...

Veronika the cow has proven to use a multi-functional tool with intent, rather than by happenstance. Cows’ intelligence has been ignored, despite co-existing with humans for thousands of years. At ...

A new study has challenged assumptions about livestock intelligence by documenting the first known instance of a cow using tools. Veronika, a pet Swiss Brown cow, whose clever use of tools suggests ...