Using the comparative approach, researchers draw inferences about the evolution of
cognition. Psychologists have postulated several hypotheses to explain why certain species …

Numerous myths and legends across the world have suggested that corvids are intelligent.
However, it is only in the last two decades that their cognition has become the subject of …

Social insects make elaborate use of simple mechanisms to achieve seemingly complex
behavior and may thus provide a unique resource to discover the basic cognitive elements …

Understanding causal regularities in the world is a key feature of human cognition. However,
the extent to which non-human animals are capable of causal understanding is not well …

String pulling is one of the most widely used paradigms in comparative psychology. First
documented 2 millennia ago, it has been a well-established scientific paradigm for a …

Tool use is widespread in the animal kingdom. It has been reported in taxa ranging from
insects to primates (see reviews in Beck, 1980; Bentley-Condit & Smith, 2010; Shumaker et …

Cooperation between individuals is one of the defining features of our species. While other
animals, such as chimpanzees, elephants, coral trout and rooks also exhibit cooperative …

In her comprehensive and carefully crafted book, Gisela Kaplan demonstrates how
intelligent and emotional Australian birds can be. She describes complex behaviours such …

Eboth enactivists and Wittgenstein, it seems, nactivists seek to revolutionize the new
recognizing these general facts about minded sciences of the mind. In doing so, they pro …

The use and manufacture of tools have been considered to be cognitively demanding and
thus a possible driving factor in the evolution of intelligence. In this study, we tested the …