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Tag: Animal Cognition

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Did My Cat Just Hit On Me? An Adventure in Pet Translation

August 29, 2022August 30, 2022Emily AnthesComments Off on Did My Cat Just Hit On Me? An Adventure in Pet Translation

Entrepreneurs are aiming to put A.I.-powered pet translation tools into our pockets.

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Why Scientists Have Spent Years Mapping This Creature’s Brain

October 26, 2021October 27, 2021Emily AnthesComments Off on Why Scientists Have Spent Years Mapping This Creature’s Brain

An enormous new analysis of the wiring of the fruit fly brain is a milestone for the young field of modern connectomics, researchers say.

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Australia’s Trash Parrots Invent New Skill in Suburbs

July 22, 2021July 23, 2021JAMES GORMANComments Off on Australia’s Trash Parrots Invent New Skill in Suburbs

Sydney’s clever and adaptable sulfur-crested cockatoos learn how to pry open garbage bins by watching one another.

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‘A Social Species’: How Kangaroos Communicate With People

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020Yan ZhuangComments Off on ‘A Social Species’: How Kangaroos Communicate With People

Researchers say that kangaroos are the first wild animals to exhibit interspecies communication that is more commonly seen in animals that have evolved alongside humans.

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Who Will Win the ‘Genius Dog Contest?’ Watch the Competition Begin

November 11, 2020JAMES GORMANComments Off on Who Will Win the ‘Genius Dog Contest?’ Watch the Competition Begin

Scientists in Hungary are streaming experiments with dogs that know many words, featuring them in a contest of canine intelligence.

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Horses and Reporting in the Field

June 26, 2020LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKAComments Off on Horses and Reporting in the Field

After weeks of lockdown, getting in my car to cover a story was both a surreal and welcome experience.

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Doing the Bump With the Belugas

May 11, 2020May 12, 2020Hillary RichardComments Off on Doing the Bump With the Belugas

An isolated corner of Manitoba is one of the few places left in the world where humans are the outsiders on display for the wildlife to observe.

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Why Are These Foxes Tame? Maybe They Weren’t So Wild to Begin With

December 3, 2019JAMES GORMANComments Off on Why Are These Foxes Tame? Maybe They Weren’t So Wild to Begin With

In a famous experiment, scientists bred Russian foxes without a fear of people. But the foxes’ ancestry raises new questions about when they became tame and what counts as domestication.

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For Cephalopod Week, Dive Into the World of Octopuses, Squids and More

June 21, 2019June 24, 2019Knvul SheikhComments Off on For Cephalopod Week, Dive Into the World of Octopuses, Squids and More

A few fun facts about the many-armed creatures.

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