His 11th and final book, “Minds I’ve Met,” was nearing completion before his untimely passing in 2024. Completed by ...

For centuries, humans have operated under a comfortable assumption: that we alone possess the cognitive sophistication to think, feel, plan, and communicate in meaningful ways. We invented language, ...

For centuries, humans assumed that intelligence was something that set us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. But new research is rewriting that story. Animal intelligence is proving to be far ...

For most of human history, the dominant position on animal consciousness was essentially a legal and philosophical convenience: animals do not have subjective experience in any meaningful sense, ...

I stressed that there is no evidence that supposedly smarter animals suffer more than animals who supposedly are not as intelligent. In this essay I also wrote, "It's also become clear that the word ...

Learn how researchers tested a cow’s behavior and what her tool use reveals about animal intelligence. Veronika the cow reaches down and picks up a brush with her mouth. Instead of using it in a ...

(Jeremy Bentham) Two sentences that caught my eye in Ms. Ritkin's essay are: "Instead of giving animals the full upgrade, we could start to understand them as near-persons, or at least as creatures of ...

Kumar Utkarsh | Jan 22, 2026, 11:01 AM IST Veronika, a cow in Austria, has stunned scientists by becoming the first documented cattle to use tools, forcing researchers to rethink animal intelligence ...

Researchers have proposed a new ethical framework to regulate emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, used to decode animal communication, Ana Cristina Alvarado ...