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"When researching animal intelligence, we still think too much from the human point of view," argues philosopher Bas van ...

First author of the current paper is Matthew Zipple, a neurobiologist at Cornell University's Laboratory for Animal Social ...

A new survey is offering a rare snapshot into current scientific thinking on animal emotions and consciousness.

Animal cognition encompasses the mental capacities of non-human animals including insect cognition. The study of animal conditioning and learning used in this field was developed from comparative ...

Griffin. He and I spent many hours talking about the scientific study of animal minds, and there is no doubt whatsoever that he is the "Father of Cognitive Ethology." Thus, I was thrilled when ...

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It provides concise overviews on major areas of study such as animal communication and language, memory and recall, social cognition, social learning and teaching, numerical and quantitative abilities ...