Veronika the Cow shocks scientists by using a tool
The 13-year-old bovine is crushing stereotypes of bovine intelligence
By News on the Net -- Popular Science Podcasts—— Bio and Archives--January 22, 2026
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The smart animal club continues to add new members, and the newest might surprise you. A pet cow in Austria named Veronika picks up sticks with her mouth and uses them to scratch herself—which a team at University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna in Austria believes is tool use. Veronika and her ground-breaking scratching are detailed in a study published today in Current Biology.
“The findings highlight how assumptions about livestock intelligence may reflect gaps in observation rather than genuine cognitive limits,” Alice Auersperg, a study co-author and cognitive biologist at the university, said in a statement. ---More...
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