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.
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Understanding how animals think, learn and interact with one another can inform the science of ecology, as predator and prey shape their world.
Box jellyfish have no brains, yet were recently found to be able to learn from touch. Many brainless organisms are now forcing us to rethink what it means to learn.
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.
Picking the correct flowers is a crucial job for honey bees, so it’s no wonder they are incredibly efficient at it. But how can such little brains do it?
A Steller’s sea eagle, native to the Asian Arctic, has traveled across North America since 2021. A scholar questions whether the bird is lost – and how well humans really understand animals’ actions.
This new study could help researchers understand conditions such as autism and help fight climate change by reducing the carbon footprint of AI.
You can tell how close penguins are to each other by how similar their voices are.
How do squirrels leap through trees without falling? It takes strength, flexibility and finely tuned cognitive skills.
Measuring the heart rate of animlas can reveal their changing emotional state, even when their behaviour stays the same.
Only a few individual animals have recognised themselves in mirrors before.
A marine version of the Stanford marshmallow experiment helped show cuttlefish can delay gratification.
For the past 50 years, international animal cognition research has focused on how tool use is related to animal intelligence. But new research casts doubt on long-held assumptions.
Life in captivity causes observable harm to the structure and function of large mammals’ brains.
A quirk of psychology that affects the way people learn from others may have helped unlock the complicated technologies and rituals that human culture hinges on.
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