The global search for the most intelligent animals has become one of science’s most captivating pursuits. From jungles to oceans to treetops, researchers are continually discovering surprising new ...

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

A new special issue in the journal Acta Ethologica examines how animals think, learn, and interact with others in their environments. Titled Animal Intelligence: From Individual to Social Cognition, ...

When people think about intelligent animals, they usually imagine dogs that follow commands or cats that understand routines.

We've run the numbers and the verdict is in: Honeybees do have the ability to process numerical information. New research led ...

Papers were presented at a symposium held at the National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C. on April 9-10, 1983 Introduction: The issue of animal intelligence / David Challinor -- Invertebrate ...

This cute discovery of multipurpose tool use by Veronika the cow got me and other editors here thinking about the bounds of animal intelligence. For instance, I often wonder what is happening inside ...

Why does it make me so happy to think that other animals are intelligent and social like human beings? It's especially nice when they aren't known for having wars or some other less impressive human ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People are sharing the wildest displays of animal intelligence they’ve ever witnessed. One of the best things about house pets is ...