But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of reality’s fullness. Each is enclosed within its own unique sensory ...

"Playing Possum" is the first philosophical book to deal with the topic of animals’ death-related cognition. The concept of ...

In “Why Animals Talk,” zoologist Arik Kershenbaum argues that knowing what animals are saying is less crucial than why they ...

But it would be a mistake to conclude that animals in Spain have worse lives than in the U.S. Take, for instance, the matter ...

Watching it go about its life in the small ecosystem of the terrarium put me at ease.” Her book “The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating” is partly an autobiographical reflection on health and ...

The Mirror can disclose how the prices of lives were meticulously recorded at Carrick Plantation, in Tobago’s Bloody Bay, in ...

Recalibrating our senses reveals that animals are indeed talking and communicating ideas, feelings, and information with ...

And so the idea is, we start from there, and then we can look into how complex animal’s concept of death actually is. KATHLEEN DAVIS: So let’s start with some of the smallest examples of creatures in ...

Don Zancanella will read from his new novel “Animals of the Alpine Front” at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, at Bookworks.

Whiskers, or vibrissae, are specialized touch organs made of modified hairs that help animals like cats, rats, and seals sense their surroundings, find food, and detect prey. These highly ...

The chief animal protagonists in this story are two dogs and a polo pony. Their cognition can seem almost human at times. Was ...

This superstition about black cats and other black animals in general has shaped people’s preferences about animals. It’s left its mark on things such as lower adoption rates for black cats and ...