Studying cognition in the wild is a challenge. Field researchers and their study animals face many factors that can easily interfere with their variables of interest and that many say are 'impossible' ...

Dogs Know Their People ​Dogs are arguably the most iconic example of animals that can identify individual humans, but their [ ...

Many animals are well-known for their intelligence. Animal cognitive science has shown how octopuses are skilled problem-solvers and how chimps evolved to use tools. But give either animal a standard ...

Cognitive enrichment is a growing subset of environmental enrichment for captive animals. However, it has been difficult for practitioners to design, implement, and evaluate relevant and appropriate ...

Ten years ago this week, researchers pointed out that many important findings in human experimental psychology cannot be generalized because study participants are predominantly drawn from a small, ...

This post is in response to The Eclectic Father of Cognitive Ethology By Marc Bekoff Ph.D. Source: Jeffrey Eisen/Pexels. A growing number of people, including academics and non-academic folks, are ...

"The same cognitive abilities that aid animals in coping with human-altered environments may paradoxically predispose animals to conflict with humans." (Barrett et al. 2018, P. 6) Human animals are ...

Cognitive abilities likely evolved in response to specific environmental and social challenges and are therefore expected to be specialized for the life history of each species. Specialized cognitive ...

Researchers argue that cognitive studies in comparative psychology often wrongly take an anthropocentric approach, resulting in an over-valuation of human-like abilities and the assumption that ...