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Some more intelligent and adaptive behavior among farm animals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRSuQSym7aY
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AkaSci 🛰️@AkaSci@fosstodon.org
The authors of the paper conclude that -
"Given that Bos taurus and Bos indicus diverged more than 500,000 years ago, the capacity for tool use in cattle is unlikely to be a byproduct of domestication alone but may instead reflect a deeper, latent propensity for physical problem-solving within the bovine lineage.
Perhaps the real absurdity lies not in imagining a tool-using cow, but in assuming such a thing could never exist."
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01597-0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools
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