If you’ve ever stared deep into your pet’s eyes and wondered what they were thinking, a session with pet psychic Shira ...

Probe animal morality, the "swarm intelligence" of a beehive, the amazing navigation talents of pigeons, and more.

The thoughts of animals are like the sentences of an unfamiliar language. They are composed from parts in a way that is completely unlike the way that our language is composed from words.

Other farmed animals are described, too: a pony who by his wits manages to save an old mare wedged in a ditch; and, in one of the loveliest stories, two hens who become "devoted bodyguards" to an ...

Dogs, too, seem to have better than expected abstract-thinking abilities. They can reliably recognize pictures of other dogs, regardless of breed, as a study in the July 2013 Animal Cognition showed.

This separation is good in theory---humans and animals need to be protected from one another---but terrible in practice, as animals end up stripped of any semblance of a natural habitat.

News ‘Thinking With Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism’ By Nina C. Ayoub March 4, 2005 Take a class in animal behavior and you’ll probably receive a warning: Beware of ...