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Cockatoos understand when a job requires a toolkit
Goffin’s cockatoos know when they need to bring more than one tool to retrieve some food – something only chimpanzees have demonstrated before among non-human animals
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Cambridge lab for clever birds saved from closure by public donations
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Backpack-wearing rats could start search-and-rescue missions next year
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Why has a court decided not to grant Happy the elephant personhood?
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Mind
The grand plan to create a periodic table of all animal intelligence
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Crows may owe their intelligence to an abundance of certain neurons
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Bats can remember sounds they haven’t heard for more than 4 years
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Stingrays and zebra mbuna fish know how to add and subtract
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Octopus brains may have become complex the same way human brains did
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Humans
The Parrot in the Mirror review: Why humans evolved to be like birds
From our long lives to our social skills and even language, zoologist Antone Martinho-Truswell argues that we are more like birds than we think
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Learning styles in fruit flies may not be related to nature or nurture
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Mind
Meet the scientists who perform magic tricks on birds
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Humans
Why are we conscious? The answer lies in other animals’ heads
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Barn owls make mental maps of their surroundings while they are flying
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