A quiet moment on a farm has captured hearts everywhere, and it’s easy to see why. Pua the kunekune pig and Darla the heifer have always had a special bond at Chasin' Dreams Homestead, but this ...

Consider this sequence of events, entirely possible under the current laws in India — a pig wanders out of its pen and spoils a neighbour's kitchen garden. Police are called. The pig's owner is ...

Teacup. Pixie. Itty-bitty. Micro. Pocket-size. When Jessica Moul went scrolling through Craigslist for a new family pet, she knew she wanted an itty-bitty pig.

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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 ...

A deck brush can be a good tool for the right task. Just ask Veronika, the Brown Swiss cow. Veronika uses both ends of a deck brush to scratch various parts of her body, researchers report January 19 ...

Far Side fans might recall a classic 1982 cartoon called “Cow Tools,” featuring a cow standing next to a jumble of strange objects—the joke being that cows don’t use tools. That’s why a pet Swiss ...

Veronika, a cow living in an idyllic mountain village in the Austrian countryside, has spent years perfecting the art of scratching herself with sticks, rakes, and deck brushes. Now that scientists ...

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While research on human-pig chimeras is on an indefinite pause, xenotransplantation is moving ahead. wildpixel/iStock via Getty Images Plus In a New York operating room one day in October 2025, ...