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A team of animal behaviorists at the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research in India has found that street dogs living in that country prefer eating from yellow bowls to those of other ...

By revealing for the first time what happens in the brain when an animal makes a mistake, Johns Hopkins University ...

“Birds have actually become superstars in the area of animal cognition and they’ve showcased being able to problem solve, do all these sorts of complex, cognitive tasks that, for a long ...

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Do Animals Have Thoughts and Emotions? Many researchers who study animal cognition agree that animals “think”—that is, they perceive and react to their environment, interact with one another ...

I am a cognitive psychologist with expertise in comparative cognition and perception. I began conducting animal research as an undergraduate at New College of Florida (1993-1997), where I worked with ...

Macaques continued to search for answers to an unsolvable laboratory task, seemingly refusing to believe that the correct answers were random and inconsistent.

April the dog, aged 6, previously enjoyed a quiet life with her elderly owner. Soon everything would change, apart from one important thing.