First-ever flexible tool use seen in a cow suggests livestock are smarter than believed

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, ...
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Scientists Suddenly Discover That Cow Tools Are Real

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Veronika the cow joins exclusive club of tool users

"Imagine the tools a cow would make. This idea, humorously illustrated in Gary Larson's Far Side cartoon, captures a ...
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Raw video: New 'Cow Tools' research transforms our understanding of bovine intelligence and proves famous cartoon wrong

Credit: Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró/Cover Images Gary Larson’s 1982 The Far Side cartoon Cow Tools has long delighted internet ...
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Cow tool use challenges ideas about animal intelligence

For decades, the default assumption has been that cows don’t have the kind of minds that support tool use. A famous Far Side cartoon, Cow Tools, made that idea into a joke: a cow stands beside strange ...
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Outtagrass Cattle Co. cartoon by Jan Swan Wood

Outtagrass Cattle Co. cartoon by Jan Swan Wood for the Jan. 17, 2026, edition of Tri-State Livestock News ...

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees ...