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

How does a cow scratch an itch on its back? An Austrian cow named Veronika has a solution that could change how we view ...

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

A mind-blowing video shows a clever cow using a tool to scratch herself, with a researcher saying thousands of years of ...

Chimpanzees show the most varied range of tool use outside of humans. They use sticks to gather ants and termites, and stones ...

This is the first recorded instance of a bovine using tools from her environment to relieve an itch—leaving scientists ...

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

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

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.

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

A very clever cow has learned to use sticks to scratch herself, the first time sophisticated tool use has been seen in ...