Cows are not necessarily known for their intelligence, but that less-than-stellar reputation is beginning to change. A ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google He’s on the moooove. A cow cut loose during the last leg of its transport to the University of Illinois’ veterinary ...

The incident happened around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, UIUC school officials said. A cow that was being loaded onto a trailer at the College of Veterinary Medicine's Large Animal Clinic was able to get ...

A cow named Veronika has stunned scientists by using tools in a flexible and purposeful way. She chooses different ends of a brush depending on the part of her body and adjusts her movements ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — To say that cattle have a complex stomach is a major understatement. They have four separate compartments in their stomachs that allows them to break down grass and grains, and ...

She needed a moo-sage. Utilizing implements isn’t limited to primates and brainiac birds. A brown cow named Veronika was documented using tools with impressive skill for the first time ever, ...

Justice for Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson: A team of scientists has observed, for the first time, a cow using a tool in a flexible manner. The ingenuity of “Veronika,” as the animal is called, shows ...

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A deck brush can be a good tool for the right task. Just ask Veronika, the Brown Swiss cow. Veronika uses both ends of a deck brush to scratch various parts of her body, researchers report January 19 ...

Far Side fans might recall a classic 1982 cartoon called “Cow Tools,” featuring a cow standing next to a jumble of strange objects—the joke being that cows don’t use tools. That’s why a pet Swiss ...

Veronika, a cow living in an idyllic mountain village in the Austrian countryside, has spent years perfecting the art of scratching herself with sticks, rakes, and deck brushes. Now that scientists ...

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, cow tools are real. Larson’s 1982 comic for his series The Far Side showed ...