This week’s question: Researchers have observed Veronika, a 13-year-old pet cow, grasping a broom with her mouth and using it to scratch her back—the first documented case of tool use in bovines. In ...

While many other animals have been observed to use tools, this level of sophistication is rare outside of primates like ...

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This cow in Austria doesn't need to wait around for a human to scratch an annoying itch. Veronika is a 13-year-old Swiss Brown and has figured out how to fashion a broom into a back scratcher. Her ...

Veronika the Austrian cow adapts the placement of a tool depending where on her body she has an itch, and challenges assumptions about cattle smarts in the process.

Around ten years ago, an organic farmer and baker in a small Austrian town noticed that his pet cow would use sticks to ...

Veronika, a pet cow in Austria, has shocked scientists by using a broom to scratch her back. While chimps, crows, dolphins ...

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

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