First-ever flexible tool use seen in a cow suggests livestock are smarter than believed

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, ...

Veronika the Cow shocks scientists by using a tool

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

For crows, a little tool use goes a long way

A study of New Caledonian crows, which use sticks to fish beetle larvae out of tree trunks, shows exactly how advantageous tool use can be for animals. "Evolutionarily, animals that use tools have an ...
Arizona Daily Star

'Feather-cam' shows wild crows can fashion, use variety of tools

Mounting tiny video cameras to the tail feathers of crows, researchers discovered that the birds use a variety of tools to seek food, and even make their own tools, plucking, smoothing and bending ...
Napa Valley Register

These crows almost went extinct before scientists discovered they can use tools

When Jane Goodall first encountered chimpanzees using twigs as tools in 1960—something that scientists had assumed only humans could do — she wrote an excited telegram to her colleague Louis Leakey: ...
EL PAÍS English

Veronika the cow astounds science with first consistent case of tool use

Raised as a pet in southern Austria, her solution to bothersome horseflies has changed what was known about animal ...