In early March, Dr. Barb Petersen, a large-animal vet in Texas, began getting calls from the dairy farms she works with in the Panhandle. Workers there were seeing a lot of cows with mastitis, an ...

Cows show a visual preference for new human faces over a familiar one and can match a known handler's voice to their face, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Océane ...

Cows are social animals and have cow best friends, but new research shows that they can also recognize and differentiate human faces. Cows have been domesticated for over 10,000 years, but we are ...

Another dairy farm worker in Michigan has been infected with avian influenza virus, state and federal health officials reported Thursday. The case marks the third time the outbreak of bird flu in ...

Cows have entry portals for both human and bird flus. This new finding may mean that cattle could host both types of flus at once. The two viruses could then swap parts to create a new type of ...

Experimental setup for visual preference and cross-modal tests. The cow was positioned centrally between two screens. Each screen showed a video of a person’s face: one familiar and one unfamiliar to ...