Veronika resting while using a stick. Credit: Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró In 1982, cartoonist Gary Larson introduced a famous Far Side comic called Cow Tools . The illustration showed a cow proudly standing next to a strange collection of useless objects labeled as tools. The humor relied on a widely accepted idea that cows lack the intelligence to create or use tools. That assumption is now being questioned thanks to a real cow named Veronika. A study published in Current Biology reports the