Max was a fun-loving Labrador retriever who enjoyed going for car rides and greeting clients at his owner’s office. But around age 16, Max suddenly started having accidents in the house and stopped ...

Human beings live every day with the understanding of our own mortality, but do animals have any concept of death? It’s a question that has long intrigued scientists, fueled by reports of ants, for ...

Can animals introspect into their own thoughts? Source: Hans Martha Pexels Last month, I published an article together with Heather Browning in the Journal of Consciousness Studies on the possibility ...

Two scientists studying whether animals can communicate with each other and, if so, how they do it and how humans can use artificial intelligence to understand them spoke at Aspen Ideas Festival on ...

Q. I read a BBC article called “The Animals That Detect Disasters” (February 2022) about how animals actually do predict natural disasters, which is in contrast to a column you once wrote. The authors ...

At Disney World in Florida, scientists gave two bottlenose dolphins, Bob and Toby, a series of puzzles to put their planning abilities to the test. In one task, the dolphins were first shown how to ...

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