A pet cow in Austria named Veronika picks up sticks with her mouth and uses them to scratch herself—which a team at University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna in Austria believes is tool use. Veronika and her ground-breaking scratching are detailed in a study published today in Current Biology.

A pet cow in Austria started using a broom to scratch herself — the first ever documented case of bovine tool use. For the first time ever, a cow has been documented not only using a tool but selecting which part to use when scratching at different parts of her body.