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Canine Science Is Biased Toward the Western World

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

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...

What About Cats?

Cats' intelligence and sociability are difficult to test, but new findings are increasing our understanding.

Monkeys Understand Shapes in Almost the Same Way as Humans

Our geometric intuition, long considered something that sets us apart, seems to be shared with other primates.

How body size and habitat shape the vocal repertoires of primates

Biologists, zoologists and psychologists have been trying to trace the origins of human language for centuries. One well-known theory, known as the social brain hypothesis, suggest...

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...

Monkeys and Kids Share Evolutionary Intuitions for Geometry

A new study reveals that non-human primates share a fundamental intuition for geometry with humans.

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.

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

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.

Children and monkeys share common understanding of geometry

With their ability to use tools, remember faces and even learn how to communicate with humans through sign language, nonhuman primates are considered to be among the smartest creat...

A Celebration of Our Close Kinship with Other Primates

Lennette Newell's new book is a unique fact-filled photographic gem packed with beautiful images accompanied by detailed information about behavior, geography, habitat, and more.

What Are Dogs Reading in Human Gestures Like the Open Palm?

A new paper offers valuable advice on how to study human-dog interactions and stresses that simplistic explanations might be highly misleading.

Why Positive Psychology Is Essential for a Dog to Thrive

A new science-driven book laced with true stories focuses on building strong and fair reciprocal dog-human relationships based on focus, vitality, and curiosity.

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

Evolutionary Lens Deterred Scientists from Considering Plant Cognition

It’s a familiar concept: the long, slow march from mud to mind meant that only toward the upper tier would we find such developments as cognition. Source

Looking into the eyes of gibbons: New noninvasive eye-tracking study features these little-studied apes

When you look at someone, you usually look at their face. It serves as one of the most important sources of social information in primates, so the evolution of face perception has...

Study Explores Visual Category Learning in Zebrafish and Xenotoca Fish

Two small freshwater fish have learned to sort unfamiliar images into visual categories, offering new evidence that the ability to generalize from examples is not confined to mamma...