A cow named Veronika has stunned scientists by using tools in a flexible and purposeful way. She chooses different ends of a ...

Cows, along with sheep, goats, deer, antelope, bison, buffalo, moose, elk, and reindeer, are all ruminants. These are mammals with four compartments in their digestive system that let them re-chew and ...

Well, the first thing that has to happen is that the cow has to get pregnant. She has to be able to have a baby before she can make milk. Once the cow gets pregnant, there are these things called ...

Farmers have long believed that music can influence how cows behave, and science is now catching up with evidence that proves it. From calmer moods to milk production, certain tunes have surprising ...

An Austrian cow named Veronika can use different parts of a wooden push broom to scratch herself, in the first verified instance of cattle using tools, cognitive biologists reported Monday in the ...

The discovery of bird flu in dairy cow milk highlighted a previously overlooked target for the H5N1 virus: mammary glands. A new study suggests it’s not unique to cows. An H5N1 virus isolated from an ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — To say that cattle have a complex stomach is a major understatement. They have four separate compartments in their stomachs that allows them to break down grass and grains, and ...

Whether they're for dairy or beef, cows produce a lot of methane gas. A single cow produces up to 264 pounds of methane per day, contributing to a total of 231 billion pounds of methane emitted ...

Scientists say that findings from a small experiment lend hope the outbreak among dairy cattle can potentially be contained. By Carl Zimmer Ever since scientists discovered influenza infecting ...

On America’s large dairy farms, milking is a vast operation, and the potential for disease transmission is worrying, health experts say. On America’s large dairy farms, milking is a vast operation, ...