For some mental processes, humans and animals likely follow similar lines of thinking. Catherine Falls Commercial/Moment via Getty Images Can a monkey, a pigeon or a fish reason like a person? It’s a ...

ANN ARBOR--A new University of Michigan study provides the first evidence of transitive inference, the ability to use known relationships to infer unknown relationships, in a nonvertebrate animal: the ...

A male fish can size up potential rivals, and even rank them from strongest to weakest, simply by watching how they perform in territorial fights with other males, according to a new study by Stanford ...

It's always my pleasure to share new and exciting research in cognitive ethology (the study of animal minds and emotions) and comparative cognition, especially when we learn that some nonhuman animals ...

Logical reasoning is complex behaviour, and has often been thought to be limited to animals that have complex nervous systems. But a new study shows that wasps can use a kind of logical deduction, the ...

A team of scientists at the University of Michigan has observed the first instance of transitive inference in invertebrates among paper wasps. In a study featured in the journal Biology Letters, ...

Macaques can use logical reasoning to think through tasks, a finding that adds to the growing evidence that animals don’t just make choices purely to maximise the reward they get. Greg Jensen at ...

The insects frequently found in your backyard appear to be the first invertebrate known to be capable of the skill of transitive inference. By Cara Giaimo Here’s a pop quiz for you. Tom is taller than ...

Can a monkey, a pigeon or a fish reason like a person? It's a question scientists have been testing in increasingly creative ways - and what we've found so far paints a more complicated picture than ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Can a monkey, a pigeon or a fish reason like a person? It’s a question scientists have been testing in increasingly creative ways – and what we’ve found so far paints a more ...