In recent months, the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health have announced new initiatives to reduce and replace animal testing in biomedical research. Central to these ...

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 ...

Read about the latest research on animal learning and intelligence, including studies on elephants, apes, birds and dogs.

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, ...

A new special issue in the journal Acta Ethologica examines how animals think, learn, and interact with others in their environments. Titled Animal Intelligence: From Individual to Social Cognition, ...

A Monash University researcher at the forefront of animal cognition and behavioral studies is shining a light on how the field plays a critical role in driving forward societal innovation. From ...

What is the logic underlying human and animal intelligence? This is the motivating question behind the research of Samuel J. Gershman, a Kempner Institute associate faculty member and professor in the ...

"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 ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. Exploring the animal kingdom reveals a ...