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/ "We report here our experimental \
| demonstration of flexible egocentric |
| tooling in a pet cow (Bos taurus), |
| Veronika, who uses a deck brush to self- |
| scratch. Across randomized trials, she |
| preferred the bristled end but switched |
| to the stick end when targeting softer |
| lower-body areas. This adaptive |
| deployment of tool features reveals |
| multi-purpose tool use not previously |
\ reported in non-primate mammals." /
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|| ||This is like those articles that claim that trees "communicate" because they exude more waste products under duress, or somesuch horseshit.