Max was a fun-loving Labrador retriever who enjoyed going for car rides and greeting clients at his owner’s office. But around age 16, Max suddenly started having accidents in the house and stopped ...

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The idea that animals can predict the weather is old enough that most people treat it as folklore by default. Punxsutawney Phil, woolly bear caterpillars, cows lying down in ...

Human beings live every day with the understanding of our own mortality, but do animals have any concept of death? It’s a question that has long intrigued scientists, fueled by reports of ants, for ...

Can animals introspect into their own thoughts? Source: Hans Martha Pexels Last month, I published an article together with Heather Browning in the Journal of Consciousness Studies on the possibility ...

Animals do not use words like humans, but they have their own special ways of communicating with each other. 1. Sounds: Many animals make noises to communicate. For example, dogs bark, cats meow, and ...

At an upstate New York zoo in 2012, an olive baboon sat with her baby at a table opposite a mesh screen and a curious grad student who was holding some peanuts. In one hand, the student had three ...

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