A recent study that shows how cows can use tools recalls the controversial 1982 cartoon from "The Far Side" comic strip ...

A 13-year-old Austrian cow has just nudged cattle a little higher up the intelligence ladder. Veronika, a pet cow in the ...

Utilizing implements isn’t limited to primates and brainiac birds. A brown cow named Veronika was documented using tools with ...

Chimpanzees, New Caledonian crows – and now cows. The list of animals that use tools grew a little longer this ...

Scientists say they've observed the first ever verified case of a cow using tools, vindicating a decades-old comic strip.

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

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

A pet cow named Veronika uses a tool in a surprisingly sophisticated way—possibly because she has been allowed to live her ...

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

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees ...

Her owner, Witgar Wiegele, is an organic farmer and baker who keeps the cow as a pet. With Wiegele’s permission, they conducted a series of randomized trials with a deck scrub broom, chosen for its ...

Dilbert taught me how to read. Stacked perilously high – between Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side – in my childhood home’s ...