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

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.

Her owner, Witgar Wiegele, is an organic farmer and baker who keeps the cow as a pet. With Wiegele’s permission, they conducted a series of randomized trials with a deck scrub broom, chosen for its ...

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 ...

Veronika, a brown Swiss cow from the Austrian village of Carinthia, shocked researchers with the first documented case of a ...

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

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

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

In 1982, cartoonist Gary Larson published a now-iconic "Far Side" comic titled "Cow Tools." In it, a cow stands proudly beside a jumble of bizarre, useless objects that are "tools" in name only. The ...

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