Briefing Chat: The canny cow that can use tools, and how babies share their microbiomes

Springer Nature Limited

23 January 2026

In this episode: 00:24 How babies share their gut microbesNature: Sending babies to nursery completely reshapes their microbiome 05:25 First evidence of tool use in cattleScience: No bull: This Austrian cow has learned to use tools Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.