Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many animals have been studied and observed to have an incredible capacity for intelligence. Some of the most commonly cited ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study has challenged assumptions about livestock intelligence by documenting the first known instance of a cow using tools.

If you have a pet, they might appear pretty switched on – fetching sticks, solving food puzzles, or remembering the names of their favourite toys. However, there are some animal Einsteins, whose ...

Veronika spends her days in the idyllic pastures of southern Austria, where she lives with her family. And every now and then, she picks up a broom to scratch those hard-to-reach areas of her back.

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.

There's a lot more going on in cows' inner lives than we give them credit for. Cows are highly intelligent and deeply sentient and emotional beings with distinct individual personalities, and have ...

WAYNESBORO, Ga. - In the two months since Richard Watson strapped 200 remote-control-sized transmitters around his cows' necks, an artificial-intelligence system named Ida has pinged his phone with ...

Many animals have been studied and observed to have an incredible capacity for intelligence. Some of the most commonly cited examples of animal intelligence come from animals including primates, ...

Veronika is a brown cow. Her ability to employ tools with multiple uses leaves her in the company of only two known species: humans and chimps. A tool-using bovine has researchers rethinking cow ...