When people think about intelligent animals, they usually imagine dogs that follow commands or cats that understand routines. But what if intelligence exists in animals you never thought about?

Insects join list of species capable of solving simple ‘box-and-banana’ problem that demonstrates basic intelligence ...

Honeybees engineer specialized microenvironments for queen development, while bumblebees solve novel tasks without prior training, challenging vertebrate-only views of complex cognition.

Animals are truly fascinating creatures, yet we know so little about them. For instance, did you know you would lose tequila ...

Have you ever watched an animal do something so familiar that it made you stop and stare? Maybe it was a dog looking guilty ...

One of the most misunderstood forms is fluid intelligence: the ability to think logically, recognize patterns, and solve ...

Precocial animals, the ones that move autonomously within hours after hatching or birth, have many biases they are born with that help them survive, finds a new paper led by Queen Mary University of ...

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