animal cognition

Black biologist Charles Henry Turner was doing groundbreaking research into animal cognition at the turn of the 20th…

Scientists should use magic tricks to better understand animal intelligence and perception, argue a team of…

Researchers watched puffins use sticks to scratch their backs and chests—a behavior previously unknown to…

New research seems to demonstrate that a fish called the cleaner wrasse has passed the famous mirror test for…

Cockatoos have once again demonstrated that birds have surprisingly advanced toolmaking abilities—particularly when…

Let’s say there is a hundred dollar bill wedged behind a bookshelf just beyond your reach, and beside the shelf is a…

Some dog owners claim to be able to read the face of their cuddly canine like a book, but it’s completely possible…

From a young age, human children learn that a rattle won’t make a noise until it’s shaken, and that placing fingers…

Regrettably, none of us will get to be cats. Most of us will never write a published physics paper either, let alone…

Birds are incredible, beautiful creatures from afar. They have lots of colors, they have beaks, they can fly, and…

By using a message board with three icons, scientists have shown that horses can use symbolic language to convey…

Migratory birds can glide over very long distances with minimal wing-flapping, thanks to their strategic use of…

Every doting cat owner will attest to the innate intelligence of their beloved pet, and now Japanese scientists say…

Cats seem pretty apathetic about a lot of things. You might think music is one of them. But according to a new…

More than fifty years ago, humans were pretty well convinced that they were special, different from the rest of…

Despite the wide variety of species that have complex social structures – elephants, monkeys, chimps, dolphins,…

It's hard to study intelligence in humans — our cultures are incredibly complex, and what counts as "smart" is…

To look for aliens, most people peer towards the sky. But if you look down, you'll discover they already live among…

There are many things that make the octopus a strange creature, but one of them is that each of its eight arms has…

Fork-tailed drongos are among the most clever of liars in the animal kingdom, deceiving other animals in order to…