The names of the most intelligent animals in the world will often include dolphins, elephants, and chimpanzees. Each animal ...

When people think of a smart animal, a fish rarely comes to mind. But fish can be smart too, in ways that might surprise you.

Pointing at something is one of those human universals that we do without thinking. We start showing infants objects by pointing very early, and when they get it—when they look at what we’re ...

Measuring animal intelligence is tricky. As humans, we can only compare the smarts of other creatures with our own — an inherently biased benchmark. "Asking which species is smarter is like asking if ...