Tag: animals,cognition,behavior,cows,research,tools,science,agriculture
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The Cow That Used a Tool
When a Brown Swiss cow in Austria figured out how to use a scratching device in multiple ways, researchers launched a careful cow intelligence study to understand what had just happened. Tool use has long been seen as a hallmark of advanced cognition—something we associate with chimpanzees, crows, or humans. Seeing it in a cow