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Watch chimpanzees hunt monkeys through the forest canopy

Chimpanzees share 98.8% of our DNA, making them the closest living relatives humans have. They use tools, form political ...

The Jane Goodall Institute has handwritten notes on 5 generations of chimps. AI is helping to preserve them.

The Jane Goodall Institute worked with AWS to identify AI use cases. They're digitizing decades of research and preserving Goodall's contributions.
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AWS teams up with Jane Goodall Institute to digitize six decades of primate research

Advanced AI technology will transform handwritten notes and analog footage into a searchable database for scientists to gain deeper insights. For 65 years, the Jane Goodall Institute has meticulously ...
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Watch what happens when a chimpanzee uses tools and strategy to outsmart its rival

Animal intelligence is not just about problem-solving—it directly shapes how species hunt, fight, and survive under constant pressure. From chimpanzees forming alliances and using tools to gain ...
Psychology Today

Tool Use By Animals: Why the Hype and Why It's So Important

This post is in response to Do Cows Use Tools? New Research Says Yes By Marc Bekoff Ph.D. Veronika using a brush as a tool to scratch various parts of her body. Source: A. J. Osuna-Mascaró/with ...
The Straits Times

Bovine intervention? Tool-using cow in Austria scratches the surface of animal intelligence

AUSTRIA – Used a backscratcher to get at a hard-to-reach itch? You have something in common with a cow in an Austrian village. The cow has made headlines by not just using a stick to scratch herself, ...
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Veronika Is First Cow to Be Seen Using a Multi-Purpose Tool, Something Seen Only in Apes

A clever cow called Veronika is the first ever to be recorded using tools—a brush or stick to scratch her back. The old Swiss Brown cow has astonished scientists in Austria with her broom, which she ...
Wired

‘Veronika’ Is the First Cow Known to Use a Tool

Justice for Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson: A team of scientists has observed, for the first time, a cow using a tool in a flexible manner. The ingenuity of “Veronika,” as the animal is called, shows ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Cow Named Veronika Can Scratch Her Back With a Broom. Watch the Video That Scientists Are Calling the First Documented Evidence of Cattle Using Tools

Around ten years ago, an organic farmer and baker in a small Austrian town noticed that his pet cow would use sticks to scratch herself. The cow, named Veronika, also appeared to refine her technique ...
The Guardian

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees Scientists have been forced to rethink the intelligence of cattle after an ...
The New York Times

Do Cows Use Tools? This One Does.

A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say. By Emily Anthes For a cow, Veronika has had what might ...