When people think about intelligent animals, they usually imagine dogs that follow commands or cats that understand routines. But what if intelligence exists in animals you never thought about?

"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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

The Germanic god Odin tended a smorgasbord of divine duties — healing, death, poetry and knowledge among them — but he might have been a somewhat less powerful one-eyed immortal without his animal ...

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, ...

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 ...