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Anna Elisa Kempf

@annaek.bsky.social

PhD Student @Vetmeduni Vienna 🦜🕊️ Working on Dexterity & Tool use in Goffin‘s cockatoos 🪾 into all things art & science 🪷 (she | her)

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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I have prepared a video summarizing the study. Please come back here after reading the thread : ) youtu.be/bAk4PFEuWKQ English also youtu.be/CETjjZBMT5c Spanish youtu.be/tkpjlCxDJZA German (Thanks to Esau Dharma for providing the Spanish voice for Witgar Wiegele!)

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Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow

YouTube video by Antonio Jose Osuna Mascaró

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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

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Alice Auersperg @auersperga.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

No bull: nice article about our study by David Grimm | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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No bull: This Austrian cow has learned to use tools

First evidence for tool use in cattle includes a skill previously seen only in humans and chimpanzees

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Alice Auersperg @auersperga.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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