CategoryAnimal mind
Why Humans Can’t “Share the Spotlight” With Tool-Using Animals
As the Ivy League war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out — and they don’t even notice
Ants: An Utterly Different Model of a Large Communal Society
In terms of sheer complexity of society, ants are similar to humans but they “think” very differently from us, as a British science writer finds
Researchers: Goats Can Read Basic Human Emotions
The research team hopes to improve care of livestock by establishing what they do and don’t feel about the way they are treated
Why Animals Don’t Really Have Anything Much to Say
Chicken Whisperers? Humans Learn to Interpret Chicken-ese Quickly
Can Science Tell Us Whether Our Cats Love Us?
Researchers have found out some intriguing things about the way cats react to humans
Can the Simplest Animal Minds Explain Human Minds?
Kristin Andrews thinks consciousness researchers should discard the assumptions of “overwhelmingly white, male and WEIRD” philosophy profs and study more crabs
Mice Pass the Mirror Test — Not a Self-Knowledge Test
Whether an animal recognizes its own image surely has less to do with self-awareness than with the role that sight — as a sense — plays in its life
What Do Bees’ Joy and Pain Really Tell Us About Insect Minds?
If sentience, like intelligence, can be independent of phylogeny (place in Darwin’s tree of life), the conventional picture of evolution might need rethinking
Will the Octopus Ever Find Its Way Into a Tidy Evolutionary Tree?
New finds in genetics and neuroscience both shed light and deepen the puzzle of the almost "alien" species
The Mirror Test: The Key to a Sense of Self?
When fish and ants pass the test for “a higher sense of self” — but dogs and even kids in some cultures don’t — we should ask some questions
Psychology: When a Child and a Chimp Were Raised Together…
When their son was ten months old, a psychologist couple decided to raise him alongside a baby female chimpanzee, for research purposes
What Does It Mean to Say That Spiders “Dream”?
It means much less than we might be led to think