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Livestock Using Tools? Oh My! Scientists Observe Cow Using Tool For First Time in History

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, Society & Culture, Science, News

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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A cow has been filmed using tools for the first time ever, stunning scientists Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to another edition of Cool Stuff Daily.

0:56.7

It is Tuesday, January 20th.

0:59.4

Coming up on today's episode, for the first time in recorded history, livestock, have been filmed using tools.

1:06.9

If that's piqued your interest, we've got details coming up right now.

1:11.1

The story comes to us courtesy of BBC Science Focus at author Ezi Pearson.

1:15.3

In the mountain pastures of Austria, a very clever cow is overturning our view of how intelligent these creatures actually are.

1:25.8

A pet Swiss brown cow named Veronica has learned how to use both ends of a stick to scratch

1:32.3

her own back.

1:33.3

This kind of flexible tool use is rarely seen in the animal kingdom and has never been documented

1:39.3

in cattle before.

1:41.3

Dr. Antonio Osuna Mascaro from the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, led the study

1:47.1

into Veronica's tool use, which was recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Current Biology.

1:53.1

At first, the team gave her a broom brush, expecting her to use only the bristle end. Instead,

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