Earlier this year, I wrote about dogs with an unusual talent. Although many dogs can master basic commands, these animals had ...

A look at how scientists study intelligence in humans and animals, and what we can infer about potential intelligence beyond Earth.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the artificial product of machines. It is not intelligence. Intelligence is a virtue shared by humans and other animals. Intelligence requires a healthy brain and, with ...

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 ...

Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo, identified and tracked pretend objects across tea party-like experiments, marking the first controlled demonstration of imagination in a nonhuman animal In three ...

For decades, scientists used a mirror experiment to explore whether animals could recognize themselves. In that test, researchers placed a mark on an animal’s body where it could only be seen in a ...

After losing its original eyes, one of our distant ancestors may have done what evolution does best: tinkered with what was available, reshaping a single central visual organ into two new eyes. That’s ...

A company headquartered in upstate New York is using artifical intelligence to speak with wildlife and guide them away from high-risk zones such as airports or train tracks. Flox Intelligence’s ...

This cute discovery of multipurpose tool use by Veronika the cow got me and other editors here thinking about the bounds of animal intelligence. For instance, I often wonder what is happening inside ...