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

A pet cow in Austria started using a broom to scratch herself — the first ever documented case of bovine tool use.

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

For decades, the default assumption has been that cows don’t have the kind of minds that support tool use. A famous Far Side cartoon, Cow Tools, made that idea into a joke: a cow stands beside strange ...

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

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

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

Veronika has officially put cows in one of biology’s most exclusive circles: the flexible tool users club. While scientists ...

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