Credit: Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró/Cover Images Gary Larson’s 1982 The Far Side cartoon Cow Tools has long delighted internet ...

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

Scientists say they've observed the first ever verified case of a cow using tools, vindicating a decades-old comic strip.

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.

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.