Social Media Ideas for Animal Psychology

Why Are Rats, Mice, and Birds Excluded from Animalhood?

The mindset of denying scientific facts about the complexity of animal minds is why animals lose their minds and caring about them lags behind using what we know on their behalf.

Animal behaviorists can help keep pets out of shelters and in loving homes

Living circumstances and finances can often lead to owner surrenders of animals. But behavior issues are also a big reason for pet surrenders.

All Dogs Are Saying, Is Give Pees a Chance

Reliable answers to questions about why dogs send pee-mail are few and far between, but greater knowledge would surely benefit our relationships with them—a win-win for all.

Canine Science Is Biased Toward the Western World

A new study addresses how studies on domestic dogs tend to focus on a Westernized subset.

Monkey friendships with dogs, deer and even pigs offer clues to the evolutionary origins of pet-keeping

Why do humans keep pets? A new international study suggests that some of the behavioral foundations of human-animal companionship may have much deeper evolutionary roots than previ...

Monkeys keep pets and maintain friendships with other animals

This behaviour may shed light on one of the defining features of our own species: our extraordinary relationships with other animals

Your Pet Has Been Studying You 

Your pet may not know what a bad day is, but they know what one looks like. They know the sound of your footsteps when … Continue reading →

How a Cat Person Helped Reveal Dogs' Ability to Distinguish Human Emotions

Learn how dogs’ brains respond to human smiles and distinguish fearful faces from angry and sad ones.

Hey Octopus, How Did You Get to Be So Smart?

With the asocial brain hypothesis, researchers ask us to think beyond traditional explanations for why some animals display unexpected intelligence. Source

Animal behaviorists can help keep pets out of shelters and in loving homes

Living circumstances and finances can often lead to owner surrenders of animals. But behavior issues are also a big reason for pet surrenders.

Monkeys Understand Shapes in Almost the Same Way as Humans

You (probably) won’t find a monkey in a geometry class, but it looks like our fellow primates can swing the basics. … This shared foundation suggests that our geometric intuition e...

Jul 27, Become An Animal Whisperer And Start Your Own Pet Friendly Side Hustle

Learning to become an animal whisperer allows you to form a deep connection with pets, telepathically understanding their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.

A border collie named Chaser learned and correctly retained the individual names of over 1,000 distinct toys over three...

The bond between dog and owner isn't sentiment—it's biochemistry, measurable in hormone levels and vocabulary tests that reveal cognition as real as our own. The post A border coll...

Researchers hid motion-activated cameras and speakers beside waterholes. The animals not only ran…

Researchers hid motion-activated cameras and speakers beside waterholes. The animals not only ran...

Study discovers that primates take care of animals outside their own family

AI Automates Cognitive Testing of Wild Monkeys

Scientists developed CapuchinAI, an open-source platform combining facial recognition and touchscreens to automate cognitive testing of wild capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica.

What primates tell us about the evolutionary origins of keeping pets

Keeping pets seems to be fairly recent behaviour in the timeline of human evolution. Columnist Michael Marshall turns to the latest research on primates to understand how long we’v...

Humans Love Having Pets. Seems Like Some Other Primates Do, Too.

We aren’t the only animals that like to take care of other species. A new study finds that the roots of keeping a pet may stretch deep into our primate past.

A Simple Feeding Change Makes Zoo Lions Behave More Like They Do in the Wild

Whole carcass feeding on a feast and fast schedule encouraged zoo-housed lions to display feeding and activity patterns more similar to those seen in the wild. For lions living in...

Famous chimpanzees solved puzzles that changed how humans understood intelligence, but their move to Berlin had a tragic...

Pioneering chimpanzee experiments revealed advanced intelligence and problem-solving skills. These apes demonstrated insight, challenging human uniqueness in reasoning. After the...

If You Want to Know Why Your Dog Is a Humper, Watch Them

There aren't any simple explanations for why dogs hump, but it's a natural behavior, and it’s essential to consider the context in which it happens and the dog's point of view.

Do animals understand death? 

Wildlife film makers will often capture moments on camera that make us question whether animals understand death and loss. Perhaps you’ve got first-hand experience of this, a dog w...

I’m a psychologist. Here’s what your pet’s social media account reveals about you

Some people dedicate accounts exclusively to their pets, with some of these animals gaining notoriety and wealth as ‘pet influencers’

Watch What Happened When a Lost Elephant Calf Returned to Her Family

A calf’s return to her herd showed how elephant family bonds, long-term research, and landscape protection are deeply connected. A 4-month-old elephant calf, orphaned and unsettled...