For centuries, humans have operated under a comfortable assumption: that we alone possess the cognitive sophistication to think, feel, plan, and communicate in meaningful ways. We invented language, ...

Crows remember your face, manufacture their own tools, and outsmart animals far larger than themselves. What researchers keep ...

For most of human history, the dominant position on animal consciousness was essentially a legal and philosophical convenience: animals do not have subjective experience in any meaningful sense, ...

What the Mirror Test Actually Is Gordon Gallup Jr. put a chimpanzee in front of a mirror in 1970 and watched it do something ...

Many animals have been studied and observed to have an incredible capacity for intelligence. Some of the most commonly cited examples of animal intelligence come from animals including primates, ...

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I stressedthat there is no evidence that supposedly smarter animals suffer more than animals who supposedly are not as intelligent. In this essay I also wrote, "It's also become clear that the word ...

Learn how researchers tested a cow’s behavior and what her tool use reveals about animal intelligence. Veronika the cow reaches down and picks up a brush with her mouth. Instead of using it in a ...

A recent essay by Aviva Rutkin called "When is an animal a person? Neuroscience tries to set the rules" focuses on the daunting question, "When is an animal a person?" It's surely an extremely ...