Humans aren’t the only animals that have names for each other − and studying animals that use names can teach researchers more about how human names evolved.
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Recent reports of burials of elephant calves are intriguing but it’s impossible to confirm that this was intentional.
Magpies are expert problem-solvers – but just how good they are seems to depend on the size of the social group they grow up in.
Researchers have made a fascinating observation: a polar bear used a diving hunting technique, never before reported, to capture large moulting snow geese.
Understanding how animals think, learn and interact with one another can inform the science of ecology, as predator and prey shape their world.
Scientists pour over the existing literature on corvids’ smarts to debunk some myths, and uphold others.
Have we overlooked the intelligence and value of wasps?
From jellyfish to genius, the amazing diversity of animal minds around us evolved through five major changes in the computational capacity of brains.
First published in 1975, Animal Liberation opened our eyes to the exploitation of animals. At a time of ‘ag-gag’ laws and ‘skyscraper’ farms, a new edition assesses the state of animal rights today.
We all know bees are vital pollinators. But they’re also art critics, social learners, dancers and so much more.
Giraffes are the latest animals to show they can solve tasks using statistical reasoning – and the only one to do this with a small brain relative to body size.
Octopuses are enigmatic beings whose experiences of industrial farming are likely to be profound.
Why an exploding aquarium in Berlin should destroy prevailing myths about the inner lives of fish.
Using urine and signature whistles from other dolphins, a team of scientists has shown that dolphins use signature whistles like names and hold mental representations of other dolphins in their minds.
The miniature brains of honeybees were able to understand the concepts of odd and even, despite only having 960,000 neurons (compared to 86 billion in humans).
When a bee leaves the hive for the first time to go foraging, how does she know what a flower even looks like?
A wide range of animals seem to have a grasp of numbers – but humans hold the trump card.
They can open jars, use tools, remember instructions and attack on command. But they’re still not the smartest cephalopod in the sea…
Some animals, such as California sea lions, have small brains relative to their body size, but are still impressively intelligent, showing brain evolution is even more complex than it appears.
You share the same drug habits, the same age-related memory problems and are similarly impatient when forced to wait for food.
Principais colaboradores
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Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Monash University
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Emeritus Professor in Animal Behaviour, University of New England
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Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience and Sleep Science, University of Surrey
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Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, Newcastle University
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Associate Professor of Computational Biology, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter
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PhD Student, University of St Andrews
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NERC Research Fellow, University of St Andrews
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PhD researcher, University of Utah
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PhD student in Biology, University of Rochester
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Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Georgia State University
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Doctoral candidate in Pscyhology, University of Sussex
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Universität Wien
