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Start reading recent internet conversations about AI, and you'll find an anecdote that surfaces with increasing frequency: ChatGPT delivered lifesaving medical advice. "Three weeks ago I woke up from ...

Justice for Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson: A team of scientists has observed, for the first time, a cow using a tool in a flexible manner. The ingenuity of “Veronika,” as the animal is called, shows ...

Around ten years ago, an organic farmer and baker in a small Austrian town noticed that his pet cow would use sticks to scratch herself. The cow, named Veronika, also appeared to refine her technique ...

Austrian researchers say they've found the first known example of tool use by cattle, courtesy of a Swiss-Brown cow named Veronika. Scientists have documented a lot of animals that use tools, like ...

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Far Side fans might recall a classic 1982 cartoon called “Cow Tools,” featuring a cow standing next to a jumble of strange objects—the joke being that cows don’t use tools. That’s why a pet Swiss ...

How does a cow scratch an itch on its back? An Austrian cow named Veronika has a solution that could change how we view livestock. For the past decade, Veronika has been observed by her owner ...

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, cow tools are real. Larson’s 1982 comic for his series The Far Side showed ...

This post is in response to Unexpected Creative Tool Use By a Wild Wolf to Catch Crabs By Marc Bekoff Ph.D. Veronika using the brush to scratch her back. Source: A. J. Osuna-Mascaró/with permission.