The unexpected observation of a cow using a broom to scratch herself isn't necessarily surprising, but it expands our ...

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

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

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees ...

A paper, which was published in Current Biology on Monday, is the first scientific paper to describe tool use in cattle, ...

Her owner, Witgar Wiegele, is an organic farmer and baker who keeps the cow as a pet. With Wiegele’s permission, they ...

The 13-year-old Swiss Brown cow lives in the village of Nötsch at the foot of the Carinthia mountains in southern Austria.

Veronika’s tool use is considered “egocentric” tooling because it’s directed at herself. Although it’s simpler than ...

A pet cow in Austria started using a broom to scratch herself — the first ever documented case of bovine tool use.

Veronika has officially put cows in one of biology’s most exclusive circles: the flexible tool users club. While scientists ...

A cow in Austria has been observed using tools ― the first time such behavior has been recorded in cattle. Have we ...

In 1982, cartoonist Gary Larson published a now-iconic "Far Side" comic titled "Cow Tools." In it, a cow stands proudly ...