How is an animal feeling at a given moment? Humans have long recognised certain well-known behaviour-like a cat hissing as a warning, but in many cases we've had little clue of what's going on inside ...

In the past, many scientists believed that only mammals and birds could feel or think in complex ways. Reptiles, fish, and insects were seen as simple creatures that reacted purely on instinct. But ...

Nonhuman animals of all varieties must live and thrive in an increasingly human-dominated world. Much of their time is spent trying to tell us what they want and need from us―but how can we listen?

From depressed polar bears to charismatic pandas, conservationists have used anthropomorphism, or the practice of attributing human qualities to non-human subjects, to garner public support for ...

Deep in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mélissa Berthet found bonobos doing something thought to be uniquely human. How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe ...

MOODUS, Conn. (WTNH) — It’s a special time in the school day for some Nathan Hale-Ray High School students in Moodus who get to learn how animals think and behave thanks to a behavior and training ...

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