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Now, in a new study, Veronika has demonstrated even more advanced scratching skills, deploying different ends of a wooden ...

"Imagine the tools a cow would make. This idea, humorously illustrated in Gary Larson's Far Side cartoon, captures a ...

Scientists say they've observed the first ever verified case of a cow using tools, vindicating a decades-old comic strip.

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.

Researchers in Austria detailed the unusual case of the first cow to be documented using tools -- specifically, a brush she ...

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

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, cow tools are real. Larson’s 1982 comic for his series The Far Side showed ...

The old Swiss Brown cow called Veronika has astonished scientists in Austria with her ability to use objects for a range of tasks ...

A pet cow named Veronika uses a tool in a surprisingly sophisticated way—possibly because she has been allowed to live her ...

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

Her owner, Witgar Wiegele, is an organic farmer and baker who keeps the cow as a pet. With Wiegele’s permission, they conducted a series of randomized trials with a deck scrub broom, chosen for its ...