Watch young chimpanzees beat Japanese college students in a short-term-memory test by a wide margin--raising questions about primate intelligence and evolution.
Some primates have evolved big brains because their extra brainpower helps them live and reproduce longer, an advantage that outweighs the demands of extra years of growth and development they spend reaching adulthood, anthropologists from Duke
Wildlife officials say 15 monkeys are on the loose after escaping a facility in Lakeland, Fla.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Gary Morse says the monkeys apparently escaped their island home by swimming across a pond --
Several people who called into local agencies and news outlets reporting Friday's earthquake said their pets were acting strange prior to the event.
The U.S. Geological Survey is on record with its skepticism about a connection between abnormal animal
think most people who share their homes and lives with dogs tend to think their dogs are pretty smart. We know dogs sometimes do amazing things, rescuing people, working as companion and service dogs but how smart are they really?
A 93-year-old man woke up at 3 a.m. and said he felt like something was next to him in bed. Suddenly, he felt whiskers on his face. No, it was not a dream, but a raccoon, and when Keith Ryan reacted with a jerk, the raccoon scratched him in the face.
You may have had someone tell you pigs are pretty smart animals. If not, you could be surprised to learn that some think their intelligence rivals that of dogs. In any case, what follows is an interesting link and a video showing a pig in action.
Dogs (and cats, and dolphins, and parrots, and even octopuses) are smarter than most of us give them credit for, and according to the cover story of the March issue of National Geographic they're getting smarter all the time.
At just 11 weeks old, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed Midge can give a high-five. Her older "sister," 14-month-old Rossi, can open doors, turn light switches on and off, pull a wheelchair and alert family members to the oven timer.
She can also pick up
Monkeys, like people, have a brain region that responds selectively to the voices of other monkeys, according to new research. The finding should pave the way for studies on the neural basis of voice recognition and may help shed light on how the human
With a pedigree as long as his tail, you might expect the pure-bred pooch to trounce his mongrel cousin in an IQ test. But it seems that all that breeding may be for nothing. For when it comes to intelligence, scientists say the crossbreed wins, paws
The chimp who outwits humans; the dolphin who says it with seaweed; the existential dog
An elephant that never forgets its extended family, a chimp that can outperform humans in a sophisticated test of visual memory and an amorous male dolphin that
Friederike Range at the University of Vienna and colleagues trained four canines to distinguish photographs that featured dogs from photographs that did not, it says. At first, the pooches were simultaneously shown photographs of a landscape and of a dog,
Think you're smarter than a fifth-grader? How about a 5-year-old chimp? Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won.
