A coastal wolf uses a buoy and rope to pull a crab trap, revealing planning, memory, and tool-like problem-solving in wild ...

A cow in Austria has made headlines for demonstrating flexible tool use, challenging assumptions about animal intelligence.

Learn how researchers tested a cow’s behavior and what her tool use reveals about animal intelligence.

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees ...

When we think of pigs, we inevitably think of happy livestock rooting around in the mud on a farm. But if you’ve ever taken a ...

What if you could look into a cow's face and know whether it had a fever? A new tool from the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision Lab at the University of Arkansas uses artificial intelligence ...

Alexandra Schnell receives funding from the National Geographic Society. In nature, interactions between species are often framed in terms of survival — those that hunt and those that are hunted. But ...

Did you know goldfish can learn to drive cars? Have you heard bumblebees can learn to pull on a string? Would you believe some primates can perform calculations with Arabic numerals? These tasks seem ...

Meet the kea, New Zealand’s mischievous alpine parrot, whose intelligence rivals primates. Curious, playful, and fearless, these birds solve puzzles, outsmart humans, and live in harsh mountains, ...

These icons have changed people's understanding of intelligence. June 9, 2008 — -- Throughout history, intelligence has often been considered a quality unique to humans. Influential thinkers, ...

Foxes are described as “dog hardware running cat software.” These animals are incredible problem solvers, build extremely detailed mental maps of their environment, and can recognize individuals. Over ...