Cows can now be counted among the animals shown to use tools deliberately – and to adapt them to different tasks. In a series ...

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 ...

A Swiss Brown cow has been shown to use tools flexibly and deliberately, challenging long-standing assumptions about the cognitive limits of livestock. In 1982, cartoonist Gary Larson introduced ...

A pet cow in Austria named Veronika picks up sticks with her mouth and uses them to scratch herself—which a team at ...

Veronika has officially put cows in one of biology’s most exclusive circles: the flexible tool users club. While scientists ...

The discovery builds on Jane Goodall’s research from the 1960s ...

A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows ...

New Caledonian crows may find tool use fun, according to a new study. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Getting food is nice. But scoring that food through clever tool use is even ...

A female wild wolf living on the central coast of British Columbia was filmed pulling a crab trap out of the ocean to eat the bait — a never-before-seen behavior that could constitute the first ...

FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. — In a paper published this week, researchers shared evidence indicating Southern Resident orca whales may not only use tools, but they are fashioning them to complete a specific ...