{"id":114703,"date":"2026-01-20T04:49:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=114703"},"modified":"2026-01-20T04:49:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:49:34","slug":"114703","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=114703","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cows may have been intentionally concealing their intelligence.<br \/>\nFarmers beware.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/instapundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/the_far_side_cow_tools_1-19-26.jpg\" width=\"381\" height=\"489\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is Veronika, a 13-year-old brown Swiss cow from the Austrian countryside who has stunned scientists by becoming the first documented cow to use a multi-purpose tool.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say Veronika&#8217;s back scratching may force us to rethink the intelligence of the species.<\/p>\n<p>Click the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7zMpwcHvFf\">pic.twitter.com\/7zMpwcHvFf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Independent (@Independent) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Independent\/status\/2013378725199679973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cows may have been intentionally concealing their intelligence. Farmers beware. This is Veronika, a 13-year-old brown Swiss cow from the Austrian countryside who has stunned scientists by becoming the first documented cow to use a multi-purpose tool. Experts say Veronika&#8217;s back scratching may force us to rethink the intelligence of the species. Click the\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/7zMpwcHvFf &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=114703\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-now-for-something-completely-different"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114704,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114703\/revisions\/114704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}