First-ever flexible tool use seen in a cow suggests livestock are smarter than believed

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, ...
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Scientists Suddenly Discover That Cow Tools Are Real

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Raw video: New 'Cow Tools' research transforms our understanding of bovine intelligence and proves famous cartoon wrong

Credit: Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró/Cover Images Gary Larson’s 1982 The Far Side cartoon Cow Tools has long delighted internet ...
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Cow tool use challenges ideas about animal intelligence

For decades, the default assumption has been that cows don’t have the kind of minds that support tool use. A famous Far Side cartoon, Cow Tools, made that idea into a joke: a cow stands beside strange ...

Veronika the cow demonstrates brush strokes of genius

Researchers have documented the tool-using abilities of an Austrian cow named Veronika, challenging assumptions about bovine intelligence.
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A tool-using cow is challenging what we know about farm animal intelligence

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

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows

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

Austrian cow shows first case of flexible, multi-purpose tool use in cattle

In 1982, cartoonist Gary Larson published a now-iconic "Far Side" comic titled "Cow Tools." In it, a cow stands proudly beside a jumble of bizarre, useless objects that are "tools" in name only. The ...