A Swiss Brown cow is out to prove cows are smarter than people think.

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

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

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

Veronika the brown cow's dexterous and graceful tool use upends long-held assumptions about the intelligence of cows, say ...

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

A cow’s clever behavior using back-scratching tool forces scientists to rethink intelligence of animals - This type of ...

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

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 ...

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

Learn how researchers tested a cow’s behavior and what her tool use reveals about animal intelligence.