Category: Intelligence

We need a proper test for consciousness in animals

Humans need a test for animal consciousness

Humans are learning that animals are smarter than we thought they were. This is leading to greater sensitivity and respect towards animals but it is an incredibly slow process. There are some remarkable stories...

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Elephants can catch a yawn from humans

Contagious yawning between animals is common apparently. However, it is rare for animals to “catch a yawn” from a human. But it has been seen in chimps, dogs and now elephants. A new study...

Goats are smarter than we realise

This is another study which points to a general human ignorance about the intelligence of animals and their ability to feel emotions. Humans are gradually learning and losing some of their arrogance but it...

Paper wasp Polistes dominula

Wasps can do a type of deductive reasoning

For centuries the arrogant human thought that deductive reasoning was the hallmark of human intelligence. Arrogant human is now awakening to the possibility that they have been wrong with respect to non-human intelligence and...