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

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

Veronika the cow uses a brush as a tool to scratch herself, revealing rare problem-solving skills and expanding what we know ...

A 13-year-old Swiss Brown cow in a quiet Austrian village is forcing scientists to redraw the mental map of the barnyard. By ...

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

Researchers in Austria detailed the unusual case of the first cow to be documented using tools -- specifically, a brush she ...

The unlikely star of the study is Veronika, a 13-year-old Swiss Brown cow living in the alpine village of Nötsch in southern ...

A very clever cow has learned to use sticks to scratch herself, the first time sophisticated tool use has been seen in ...

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

Veronika, a pet cow in Austria, has shocked scientists by using a broom to scratch her back. While chimps, crows, dolphins ...

For generations, scientists considered the use of tools to be the defining separation between humans and animals.

Veronika the Austrian cow adapts the placement of a tool depending where on her body she has an itch, and challenges assumptions about cattle smarts in the process.