Large teats and poorly attached udders can delay nursing, reduce colostrum intake and increase the risk of calf illness or ...

An Austrian cow has shown that some bovines are intelligent enough to employ objects for their own ends. A pet cow named Veronika has learnt how to scratch herself using a broom — the first recorded ...

An Austrian cow named Veronika has been videoed using brooms and stick to scratch herself, in what researchers say it the ...

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.

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

A pet cow in Austria started using a broom to scratch herself — the first ever documented case of bovine tool use.

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

A new study is the first to describe tool use in a cow. It could be evidence that livestock has higher cognitive capabilities than once thought, researchers say.

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

The unexpected observation of a cow using a broom to scratch herself isn't necessarily surprising, but it expands our ...

A cow in Austria has been observed using tools ― the first time such behavior has been recorded in cattle. Have we ...

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