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>Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)...
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catigula • yesterday at 8:26 PM
This reminds me of "koko the gorilla can speak English" stuff. Need to disambiguate learned mimickry from the real thing.
thinkingtoilet • yesterday at 8:17 PM
Did they look like this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools#/media/File:Cow_Tool...
Multi-purpose egocentric tool use.