Cow astonishes scientists with rare use of tools

Nithavela · Wednesday at 10:30 AM

Cow astonishes scientists with rare tool use

The discovery suggests cows may have far greater cognitive abilities than previously assumed.

www.bbc.com

Scientists are rethinking what cattle are capable of after an Austrian cow named Veronika was found to use tools with impressive skill.
The discovery, reported by researchers in Vienna, suggests cows may have far greater cognitive abilities than previously assumed.
Veronika, a cow living in a mountain village in the Austrian countryside, has spent years perfecting the art of scratching herself using sticks, rakes, and brooms.
Word of her behaviour eventually reached animal intelligence specialists in Vienna, who found Veronika used both ends of the same object for different tasks.

Warden_of_the_Storm · Wednesday at 11:10 AM

Gary Larson was not wholly far off then.

askesis · Wednesday at 5:22 PM

A cow could write a treatise on vegetarianism, and I would still eat a steak. Pray for me.

Nithavela · Wednesday at 11:22 PM

askesis said:
A cow could write a treatise on vegetarianism, and I would still eat a steak. Pray for me.

I wouldn't feel too bad about that. The cow would probably eat you as well, if given the chance.

essentialsaltes · Thursday at 9:26 AM

askesis said:
A cow could write a treatise on vegetarianism, and I would still eat a steak. Pray for me.

sjastro · Thursday at 4:50 PM

Scientists have trained cows how to put on gumboots and walk around in them.

askesis · Thursday at 7:07 PM

essentialsaltes said:
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That's impressive. Fine. No more steak. Just Chicken Marsala.

askesis · Thursday at 7:08 PM

Nithavela said:
I wouldn't feel too bad about that. The cow would probably eat you as well, if given the chance.

Did you just call me a vegetable?

Hans Blaster · Thursday at 7:57 PM

sjastro said:
Scientists have trained cows how to put on gumboots and walk around in them.

This cow is a stunt performer with an Equity card. You can tell that the actors in a cow suit have been replaced by a stunt cow as those are real cow legs. No particularly realistic as two-guys-in-a-cow-suit, Messrs. Z-A-Z. A letdown after they'd previously used a real inflatable airline pilot.

sjastro · Thursday at 8:13 PM

Hans Blaster said:
This cow is a stunt performer with an Equity card. You can tell that the actors in a cow suit have been replaced by a stunt cow as those are real cow legs. No particularly realistic as two-guys-in-a-cow-suit, Messrs. Z-A-Z. A letdown after they'd previously used a real inflatable airline pilot.

Shirley you must be joking.

Hans Blaster · Thursday at 9:06 PM

sjastro said:
Shirley you must be joking.

I'm not joking, and don't call me Shirley.

Tuur · Saturday at 6:22 AM

FWIW:

Cows will figure out how to turn on a spigot and get water. Horses, too. Problem is that while they figure out how to turn a spigot on, they never turn it off...

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