The 13-year-old Swiss Brown is the first cow to show the ability to use tools, scratching itself with a deck brush and even ...

Video taken as part of a research study in Europe shows a cow using a broom to scratch its own back, and it's the first ...

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

Around ten years ago, an organic farmer and baker in a small Austrian town noticed that his pet cow would use sticks to ...

A new study is the first to describe tool use in a cow. It could be evidence that livestock has higher cognitive capabilities than once thought, researchers say.

A clever cow called Veronika is the first ever to be recorded using tools – including a brush to scratch her back. The old ...

A cow’s clever behavior using back-scratching tool forces scientists to rethink intelligence of animals - This type of ...

Veronika the cow uses a brush as a tool to scratch herself, revealing rare problem-solving skills and expanding what we know ...

"This was a meaningful example of tool use in a species that is rarely considered from a cognitive perspective," said a ...

While many other animals have been observed to use tools, this level of sophistication is rare outside of primates like ...

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 ...

It’s long been assumed cows are not intelligent enough to make or use tools. But that assumption is being challenged by a back-scratching bovine named Veronika. The cow's impressive knack for the tool ...