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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.

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A female wild wolf living on the central coast of British Columbia was filmed pulling a crab trap out of the ocean to eat the bait — a never-before-seen behavior that could constitute the first ...

Researchers from the Haíɫzaqv Nation in British Columbia caught wolves possibly using tools for the first time on video. Donald Trump floats move to new state New Mexico fire victims await payments. A ...

We now know that a wide variety of animals use tools, and some clever surprises are among them. 1 Examples involving invertebrates, reptiles, fish, birds, and mammals show different levels of ...

It is a case of wolves in fishermen’s clothing as several of them have been spotted pulling crab traps from waters off Canada’s west coast in what scientists say may be the first documented case of ...

After a wolf dragged a crab trap out of water to get a snack, some scientists said the behavior revealed their ability to use tools. By Lesley Evans Ogden Where temperate rainforest meets the Pacific ...