In nature, interactions between species are often framed in terms of survival—those that hunt and those that are hunted. But ...

That is, they take a shortcut, suggesting that they possess a cognitive map of their territory (Menzel et al. 2005). The day-night cycle also plays a key role in animal behavior. Some species are ...

A team of animal behaviorists at the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research in India has found that street dogs living in that country prefer eating from yellow bowls to those of other ...

What has driven the need for humans? Intelligence? To gain insight into our own cognitive evolution, we can look to our closest living ancestors; our nonhuman primate cousins. Aa Aa Aa Cognition ...

And when it's not a global pandemic, I spend my time in Southern Africa researching the evolution of sociality and cognition in large carnivores, mainly big cats. Here on Animal IQ, we go inside ...

Many researchers who study animal cognition agree that animals “think”—that is, they perceive and react to their environment, interact with one another, and experience different emotions ...

I am a cognitive psychologist with expertise in comparative cognition and perception. I began conducting animal research as an undergraduate at New College of Florida (1993-1997), where I worked with ...

normal and abnormal processing of language and music (as well as their origin in the nervous system), cognitive development from the foetal stage to old age and the plasticity of the brain, animal ...

April the dog, aged 6, previously enjoyed a quiet life with her elderly owner. Soon everything would change, apart from one important thing.