"When researching animal intelligence, we still think too much from the human point of view," argues philosopher Bas van Woerkum-Rooker. "For example, just as humans use visual information to remember ...

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, ...

Precocial animals, the ones that move autonomously within hours after hatching or birth, have many biases they are born with that help them survive, finds a new paper led by Queen Mary University of ...

For centuries, humans assumed that intelligence was something that set us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. But new research is rewriting that story. Animal intelligence is proving to be far ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many animals have been studied and observed to have an incredible capacity for intelligence. Some of the most commonly cited ...

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, ...

I stressed that 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 ...

The list of animals that are the most intelligent includes the chimpanzee, dolphin, orangutan, elephant, crow, pig, and bonobo.

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 ...