Cow astonishes scientists with rare use of tools

The discovery suggests cows may have far greater cognitive abilities than previously assumed.

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 ...

‘Veronika’ Is the First Cow Known to Use a Tool

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

Cows use tools too

Austrian researchers say they've found the first known example of tool use by cattle, courtesy of a Swiss-Brown cow named ...

Cows can use tools, scientists report

The discovery builds on Jane Goodall’s research from the 1960s ...
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This Wolf Solved a Multi-Step Puzzle Scientists Thought Only Primates Could

The “Tool-Using” Wolf Seeing a gray wolf haul a crab trap out of the ocean looks like a scene from a science documentary that ...

Do Cows Use Tools? This One Does.

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

Ask Dr. Universe: Scientists use multiple tools to figure mass, size of planets

Scientists on Earth use seismometers to get a more detailed picture of what the inside of the Earth is made of. Those seismometers record vibrations from earthquakes. The vibrations change depending ...