Move over, chimpanzees and crows—there’s a new genius in town, and she’s got hooves and an attitude. Meet Veronika, the Swiss brown cow who’s been secretly moonlighting as a tool-using prodigy for a decade. This bovine Einstein grabs sticks and brushes in her mouth, scratches her itches with surgical precision (brush end for the tough spots, handle for the sensitive ones), and basically forces scientists to rewrite the book on farm animal smarts. Forget “dumb as a cow”—Veronika’s out here evolving right under our noses, probably plotting world domination one back-scratch at a time. Gary Larson’s “Cow Tools” comic just went from absurd prophecy to “told you so.”
Austrian researchers document first case of a cow using a tool
