Bees play by rolling wooden balls — apparently for fun. The cleaner wrasse fish appears to recognize its own visage in an underwater mirror. Octopuses seem to react to anesthetic drugs and will avoid ...

These five research-backed insights show why the octopus remains one of the most extraordinary minds in the animal kingdom.

In 2021, Bunny, a TikTok-famous Sheepadoodle, stared at herself in a mirror and asked “who is this?” by tapping her paws on her augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device’s buttons. The ...

How do animals perceive their environment, how do they learn, remember, solve problems, and make decisions? And how do different species interact with humans and one another? Research on animal ...

Studies of animal ethology began long ago, but today’s popular animal cognition books largely began with Stanley Coren in 1994, the year he published The Intelligence of Dogs. Coren had been a highly ...

Recent research has turned the spotlight on our closest primate relatives, the chimpanzees, revealing their ability to engage in metacognition, a cognitive process once thought to be exclusive to ...

Are mice clever enough to be strategic? Kishore Kuchibhotla, a Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist who studies learning in humans and animals, and who has long worked with mice, wondered why ...

A new study conducted by animal behavior and mammalian cognition experts at the Universities of Lincoln and Sussex, and Jean Monnet University, reveals that dogs may be far better at understanding ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — In a St. Petersburg house, there is a living room filled with play toys belonging to a precocious preschooler, named Apollo. The four-year-old African Grey parrot is a Guinness ...

A certain white rabbit and his legendary drive for punctuality aside, scientists don't really know much about animals' sense of time. How aware of time are they? Do they apply past experiences to ...

Source: Gleive Marcio Rodrigues de Souza/Pexels. I've long been interested in what nonhuman animals (animals) know and feel about death and dying including if they know when others are dying. 1 I'm ...