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

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

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

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

A new study is the first to describe tool use in a cow. It could be evidence that livestock has higher cognitive capabilities ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1982, cartoonist Gary Larson published a now-iconic "Far Side" comic titled "Cow Tools." In it, a cow stands proudly ...