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The birds’ impressive ability to nod off may be an adaptation to an environment of constant interruptions.

This study has everything: jumping spiders; insects donning striped and solid patterns; and evolutionary lessons about predators and prey.

The success of wild striated caracaras in a test suggests that the intellects of more bird species may be underestimated.

The birds are widely reviled for their carrion-eating ways. But an evolutionary history of scavenging has forged a creative, cunning and wide-ranging mind.

A modified version of the classic mirror test suggested that roosters recognize their reflections.

Understanding how animals think, learn and interact with one another can inform the science of ecology, as predator and prey shape their world.

DOGS – people have welcomed them into homes and considered them a part of the family for centuries, or at the very least a useful companion.

Because box jellyfish are so distantly related to other animals, the research findings could hint at how the ability to learn first evolved.

Scientists pour over the existing literature on corvids’ smarts to debunk some myths, and uphold others.

Palm cockatoos fashion sticks for drumming on trees by snapping off branches and whittling them with their beaks, and the males design their tools with their own personal style