Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mind-blowing video shows a clever cow using a tool to scratch herself, with a researcher saying thousands of years of ...

While it's normally chimpanzees that are applauded for it, a team in Austria has just reported the first known case of a cow using tools. 13-year-old Veronika lives in a mountain village and has spent ...

Humans and chimpanzees share the capacity for genocide, which is rooted in the evolution of higher thought and the separation ...

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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.

A Swiss Brown cow has been shown to use tools flexibly and deliberately, challenging long-standing assumptions about the cognitive limits of livestock. In 1982, cartoonist Gary Larson introduced ...

New study reveals our closest relatives share the cognitive roots of imagination and pretense. Remember childhood tea parties ...

Before Jane Goodall went to Tanzania for the first time in 1960 to observe chimpanzees, we knew little about their rich method of communication, or the fact they like being tickled. We certainly ...

For a cow, Veronika has had what might be considered an idyllic life. She lives in a picturesque town in Austria, surrounded by snow-capped mountains and glacial lakes. She is a beloved family pet, ...

By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe tea parties ...