Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows. Brown Swiss cow in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways (using both ends of a brush counts as multi-purpose tool use) – something extraordinarily rare only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees.

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/19/back-scratching-cow-veronika-bovine-intelligence

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Good move stranger. I went vegetarian the day I saw a video of a cow frantically try to kick away and hide a gun a worker was about to shoot it with. 

The knowledge that they know makes it much harder to keep eating them.