A recent study that shows how cows can use tools recalls the controversial 1982 cartoon from "The Far Side" comic strip called "Cow Tools." ...

Researchers have documented the tool-using abilities of an Austrian cow named Veronika, challenging assumptions about bovine intelligence.

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.

Cows itch, just like us. But Veronika the cow takes things into her own hands. Or rather: into her mouth. Scientists say it’s ...

This is the first recorded instance of a bovine using tools from her environment to relieve an itch—leaving scientists ...

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

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

Veronika, a brown Swiss cow from the Austrian village of Carinthia, shocked researchers with the first documented case of a ...

Gary Larson's 1982 The Far Side cartoon Cow Tools has long delighted internet jokers - with its oblique anti-humour making it ...

Credit: Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró/Cover Images Gary Larson’s 1982 The Far Side cartoon Cow Tools has long delighted internet ...

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, ...