Understanding intelligence in the animal kingdom isn’t as simple as ranking species from most intelligent to least. There’s ...

Increasing urbanization has crowded out many wild animals. But raccoons appear to be thriving, living in cities across the country and even expanding their historical range. To investigate what ...

A tiger walks the same worn groove along the edge of its exhibit, like a broken record. A parrot methodically plucks out its own feathers until bare skin shows through. To a casual visitor, these can ...

Animal cognition scientists designed an open-air experiment to test wild elephants’ problem-solving abilities for the first time. They observed that Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) at Salakpra ...

For a long time, scientists judged animal intelligence by how closely it resembled human behavior. That left a lot unnoticed.

What if intelligence is not something humans own but something shared across the entire animal kingdom? From deep oceans to ...

Animal behavior research relies on careful observation of animals. Researchers might spend months in a jungle habitat watching tropical birds mate and raise their young. They might track the rates of ...