Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many animals have been studied and observed to have an incredible capacity for intelligence. Some of the most commonly cited ...

An Austrian cow named Veronika can use different parts of a wooden push broom to scratch herself, in the first verified instance of cattle using tools, cognitive biologists reported Monday in the ...

Veronika spends her days in the idyllic pastures of southern Austria, where she lives with her family. And every now and then, she picks up a broom to scratch those hard-to-reach areas of her back.

Many animals have been studied and observed to have an incredible capacity for intelligence. Some of the most commonly cited examples of animal intelligence come from animals including primates, ...

Veronika is a brown cow. Her ability to employ tools with multiple uses leaves her in the company of only two known species: humans and chimps. A tool-using bovine has researchers rethinking cow ...

Veronika the cow has proven to use a multi-functional tool with intent, rather than by happenstance. Cows’ intelligence has been ignored, despite co-existing with humans for thousands of years. At ...