But, one of the coolest things we have in our area that doesn't get talked about nearly enough is Chimp Haven. Located out in ...

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 ...

In a now-viral video, a cow is seen scratching itself with a brush. According to the BBC, the cow named Veronika lives in a ...

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

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A new experiment hints that an ape may be able to play pretend like humans do.

How does a cow scratch an itch on its back? An Austrian cow named Veronika has a solution that could change how we view ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, cow ...

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 ...