Have you ever wondered what dogs do when their owners leave? Maymo and Penny show you some of the things they like to do when left home alone: they play poker, smoke cigars, break random objects, and ...

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

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

This is not comparable to word learning in children. By around age two, typical English-speaking children learn approximately ten new words each day, reaching an average vocabulary of about 60,000 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Researchers observed that Veronika typically prefers to use the bristled end of a deck brush when scratching the broad, firm ...

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

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

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

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