A team of animal behaviorists at the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research in India has found that street dogs living in that country prefer eating from yellow bowls to those of other ...

Most animal species move about in their habitat, which requires navigating between locations. Navigation occurs over different spatial scales, from centimetres to thousands of kilometres ...

Animal cognition encompasses the mental capacities of non-human animals including insect cognition. The study of animal conditioning and learning used in this field was developed from comparative ...

Macaques continued to search for answers to an unsolvable laboratory task, seemingly refusing to believe that the correct answers were random and inconsistent. In Chapter 1, “The Science of Animal ...

April the dog, aged 6, previously enjoyed a quiet life with her elderly owner. Soon everything would change, apart from one important thing.

And when it's not a global pandemic, I spend my time in Southern Africa researching the evolution of sociality and cognition in large carnivores, mainly big cats. Here on Animal IQ, we go inside ...

Do Animals Have Thoughts and Emotions? Many researchers who study animal cognition agree that animals “think”—that is, they perceive and react to their environment, interact with one another ...

What has driven the need for humans? Intelligence? To gain insight into our own cognitive evolution, we can look to our closest living ancestors; our nonhuman primate cousins. Aa Aa Aa Cognition ...

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“Birds have actually become superstars in the area of animal cognition and they’ve showcased being able to problem solve, do all these sorts of complex, cognitive tasks that, for a long ...