A pet cow named Veronika uses a tool in a surprisingly sophisticated way—possibly because she has been allowed to live her ...

A cow in Austria has made headlines for demonstrating flexible tool use, challenging assumptions about animal intelligence.

A coastal wolf uses a buoy and rope to pull a crab trap, revealing planning, memory, and tool-like problem-solving in wild ...

Learn how researchers tested a cow’s behavior and what her tool use reveals about animal intelligence.

When we think of pigs, we inevitably think of happy livestock rooting around in the mud on a farm. But if you’ve ever taken a ...

What if you could look into a cow's face and know whether it had a fever? A new tool from the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision Lab at the University of Arkansas uses artificial intelligence ...

Meet the kea, New Zealand’s mischievous alpine parrot, whose intelligence rivals primates. Curious, playful, and fearless, these birds solve puzzles, outsmart humans, and live in harsh mountains, ...

Alexandra Schnell receives funding from the National Geographic Society. In nature, interactions between species are often framed in terms of survival — those that hunt and those that are hunted. But ...

To this day, animal testing remains one of the most controversial issues in animal rights. Activists have been fighting ...