Ask whether animals think and feel, and people around the world tend to agree: yes - but not in the same way humans do. A new cross-cultural study suggests that this distinction runs deeper than ...

How is an animal feeling at a given moment? Humans have long recognized certain well-known behaviour like a cat hissing as a warning, but in many cases we’ve had little clue of what’s going on inside ...

In the past, many scientists believed that only mammals and birds could feel or think in complex ways. Reptiles, fish, and insects were seen as simple creatures that reacted purely on instinct. But ...

Rob Gierka and Karen Duke explain why this dated, insensitive dismissal ignores the power of human-animal bonds and how animals are vital to our physical and spiritual well-being.

Michael Bond explains how animals have influenced our minds and cultures and why human exceptionalism is downright misleading ...