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

Veronika the brown cow's dexterous and graceful tool use upends long-held assumptions about the intelligence of cows, say ...

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

How does a cow scratch an itch on its back? An Austrian cow named Veronika has a solution that could change how we view ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scientists investigating video of a cow using tools say their findings could expand the list of animals capable of tool use.