animal intelligence

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

A species of fire ant can turn tiny grains of sand into a powerful tool for extracting food, in a clever design…

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

Scientists studying kea, New Zealand’s alpine parrot, revealed that the famously mischievous birds could understand…

Wild animals of different species going on adventures together is a fiction invented by animated films—or is it? A…

Unprecedented video shows a male gray seal using its flippers to produce a loud sound underwater. Scientists say it…

Pigs may never fly, but they’re capable of using tools, as fascinating new research demonstrates.

New research suggests rats are capable of learning to play hide-and-go-seek with humans—and they appeared to…

Animals that think and talk like humans have long enchanted the public—in the form of myths, children’s books, and…

Snowball the dancing parrot doesn’t just bob his head when he hears music. He headbangs. He headbangs with a lifted…

Happy Sunday evening! Hopefully the events of the last week have been going better for you than YouTube, which spent…

A new experiment in which bees were trained to associate symbols with numbers suggests we can communicate with…

As omnivorous creatures, chimpanzees eat all sorts of things, including fruits, termites, tiny rodents, and even full…

Wild gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda exhibit a variety of behaviors around dead individuals,…

Plenty of cat owners will happily tell you their felines are capable of responding to their own names, but the…

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

A new study suggests honeybees inherently understand the rudiments of addition and subtraction, a finding that…

As humans, we like to think we’re the only species capable of using others to get what we want. New research shows…

Praying mantises are what scientists call “generalist” hunters, meaning they eat pretty much whatever they want.…

Do you ever get so excited about something that your whole face starts to turn red? Well, it seems that…