Ask whether animals think and feel, and people around the world tend to agree: yes - but not in the same way humans do. A new cross-cultural study suggests that this distinction runs deeper than ...

The debate about whether (and, if so, how) animals think is an ancient one. Aristotle considered it important enough to write on the question extensively, and it’s a safe bet people were debating it ...

Michael Bond explains how animals have influenced our minds and cultures and why human exceptionalism is downright misleading ...

In the past, many scientists believed that only mammals and birds could feel or think in complex ways. Reptiles, fish, and insects were seen as simple creatures that reacted purely on instinct. But ...

Overall, people are better at detecting the intensity of the emotion in zoo animals rather than whether it’s a good or bad one. Humans were better at recognizing negative zoo animal emotions than ...

How pets interact with humans will be explored at 7 p.m. Thursday at Lifetree Café. The program, titled “What’s Your Pet Trying to Tell You?”, explores how animals think and interact with humans. In ...