It’s a question that has fascinated researchers and thinkers of various traditions. Animals and humans have always interpenetrated and shaped each other’s worlds, but the project of understanding how ...

AI is reshaping countless aspects of life. But so far, its applications have focused mostly on our singular species, Homo sapiens. What if humans used AI to better understand the nonhuman beings with ...

1. Why biocommunication of animals? / Guenther Witzany -- 2. Signs of communication in chimpanzees / Mary Lee A. Jensvold, Lisa Wilding, Savannah H. Schulze -- 3. African and Asian elephant vocal ...

Bees don’t just follow dance directions - they recall landscapes, use memory, and build cognitive maps to guide efficient ...

Language was long understood as a human-only affair. New research suggests that isn’t so. Credit...Illustration by Denise Nestor Supported by By Sonia Shah Can a mouse learn a new song? Such a ...

Previously, a commonly accepted belief within the scientific community was that animals are intellectually inferior to humans. However, extensive research on whale behavior performed over the course ...

From using moon rovers that encourage predators to hunt and forage in packs, to applying state-of-the-art algorithms to try ...

Deep in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mélissa Berthet found bonobos doing something thought to be uniquely human. How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe ...

‘Only connect,” wrote E.M. Forster. Lots of animals already do, writes Lee Alan Dugatkin, a professor of biology at the University of Louisville. Mr. Dugatkin’s “The Well-Connected Animal” combines ...

Scientists are closer than ever to deciphering sperm whale communication. Their breakthroughs could open the door to expanded whale rights and even legal personhood. A pod of sperm whales swims off ...

If you're anything like me, you might like to avoid conflict. I dislike conflict because it's stressful, often a lose-lose proposition, and rarely seems to get resolved in a healthy manner. When we ...

As the name suggests, the main concern of comparative psychology is comparing the cognitive abilities of various animal species with those of humans. But how do we choose our subjects? Why is it that ...