Life
Bumblebees can teach each other how to open a puzzle box
When researchers taught a bumblebee to push a lever for a reward, the knowledge spread through its colony, hinting that these insects have a kind of minimal culture
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Cockatoos understand when a job requires a toolkit
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Cambridge lab for clever birds saved from closure by public donations
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Backpack-wearing rats could start search-and-rescue missions next year
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Why has a court decided not to grant Happy the elephant personhood?
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Mind
The grand plan to create a periodic table of all animal intelligence
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Crows may owe their intelligence to an abundance of certain neurons
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Bats can remember sounds they haven’t heard for more than 4 years
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Stingrays and zebra mbuna fish know how to add and subtract
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Octopus brains may have become complex the same way human brains did
The relatively high intelligence of octopuses may be due in part to high numbers of microRNAs that could let them generate more types of neurons
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Humans
The Parrot in the Mirror review: Why humans evolved to be like birds
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Learning styles in fruit flies may not be related to nature or nurture
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Meet the scientists who perform magic tricks on birds
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Why are we conscious? The answer lies in other animals鈥� heads
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