Topic: animal intelligence

A Pacific giant octopus crawls over a colorful anemone filled bottom. (Getty Images / Mauricio Handler)

Maybe don't anthropomorphize octopuses

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Warty Comb jellyfish (Mnemiopsis leidyi) (Getty Images/Oxford Scientific)

Strange consciousness of comb jellies

Matthew Rozsa
Wildlife Monkey Portrait (Getty Images/4FR)

Wild animals can experience trauma too

Xochitl Ortiz Ross - The Conversation
Herring Gull Larus argentatus with three chicks (Getty Images/aseppa)

Why gulls don't deserve the hate

Brianna Grant
Rossano study Dog and Soundboard (Courtesy of Comparative Cognition Lab at UC San Diego/Photo by Patrick Wood)

Yes, dogs understand soundboard words

Nicole Karlis
Sperm whale and sound-waves, illustration. (Getty Images/VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Maybe don't use AI to talk with whales

Levi Stallings
Melancholic long-hair cat lying (Getty Images/Rafa Elias)

Cats seem to grieve deaths of other pets

Matthew Rozsa
Octopus with diver's hand underwater (Getty Images/Martin Steinthaler)

Plumbing the depths of animal minds

Carlyn Zwarenstein
All paws in! (Getty Images/fstop123)

Do dogs understand the "paws in" trend?

Matthew Rozsa
Fruit fly, Drosophila Melanogaster, on a red apple surface (Getty Images/Andreas Häuslbetz)

Bugs with "Kevin Bacon" gene are cooler

Rae Hodge
White Sussex chicken among the flowers (Getty Images/daphnusia)

Study finds chickens may blush

Rae Hodge
Stan, a replica of a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, looms below a hand-painted sky on the ceiling in the Childrens Library inside the Cerritos Library in Cerritos on Sunday, November 27, 2022. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Was T. rex really as smart as primates?

Matthew Rozsa
This handout photo released by SUAQ Foundation on June 23, 2022, shows Rakus, a male orangutan with a facial wound, at Gunung Leuser National Park in North Sumatra, Indonesia. (SUAQ Foundation/AFP via Getty Images)

Primate heals itself with plant medicine

Matthew Rozsa
Japanese tit (Getty Images/rockptarmigan)

Japanese birds gesture "after you"

Matthew Rozsa
Clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) and Sea Anemone (Getty Images/Stephen Frink)

Clown fish can count, study finds

Matthew Rozsa
Plainfin Midshipman (Getty Images/Joseph Dreimiller)

Inside the brains of "singing" fish

Rae Hodge
Mouse on a mirror (Getty Images/Kseniia Glazkova)

Mice recognize their own reflection

Matthew Rozsa
A mother Bottlenose Dolphin swims with her calf close by (Getty Images/NaluPhoto)

Dolphins can sense electricity: study

Nicole Karlis
Alexis Devine and Bunny the Talking Dog (Photo courtesy of the author/Harper Collins)

A "talking" dog's owner on canine minds

Matthew Rozsa
African elephant (Loxodonta africana) small group of elephants drinking at a waterhole in Mashatu game reserve, Botswana, Africa. (Sergi Reboredo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Elephants may have names for each other

Rae Hodge
Common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) (Getty Images/Anup Shah)

Like us, these five animals have culture

Elizabeth Hlavinka
American shorthair striped cat with a dissatisfied face (Getty Images/Kilito Chan)

New research on getting cat emotions

Matthew Rozsa
Kendra Buresch, senior research assistant, touches Marco Polo, an octopus that is checking out the top of the tank at the Marine Biological Lab. (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Is octopus experimentation ethical?

Matthew Rozsa
Monk Parakeet (Getty Images/iculizard)

Parrots have "voiceprints" like humans

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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