Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists are rethinking what cattle are capable of after an Austrian cow named Veronika was found to use tools with impressive ...

A 13-year-old Austrian cow has just nudged cattle a little higher up the intelligence ladder. Veronika, a pet cow in the Alpine village of Nötsch im Gailtal, caught the attention of animal cognition ...

An Austrian cow named Veronika can use different parts of a wooden push broom to scratch herself, in the first verified instance of cattle using tools, cognitive biologists reported Monday in the ...