Austrian researchers say they've found the first known example of tool use by cattle, courtesy of a Swiss-Brown cow named ...

Cows can now be counted among the animals shown to use tools deliberately – and to adapt them to different tasks. In a series ...

A pet cow in Austria named Veronika picks up sticks with her mouth and uses them to scratch herself—which a team at ...

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

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

A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows ...

The discovery builds on Jane Goodall’s research from the 1960s ...

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

that were otherwise out of reach. And this is exactly what she did.

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.

For decades, the default assumption has been that cows don’t have the kind of minds that support tool use. A famous Far Side cartoon, Cow Tools, made that idea into a joke: a cow stands beside strange ...

A wolf was filmed pulling bait out of a submerged crab trap — with some experts howling with glee that it could be the first documented evidence of the beasts using tools. The female wolf was recently ...