Explaining how animals respond to an increasingly urbanised world is a major challenge for
evolutionary biologists. Urban environments often present animals with novel problems that …

Humans have a profound effect on the planet's ecosystems, and unprecedented rates of
human population growth and urbanization have brought wild animals into increasing …

With global surface air temperature rising rapidly, extensive research effort has been
dedicated to assessing the consequences of this change for wildlife. While impacts on the …

Recently, there has been a surge in cognition research using non‐avian reptile systems. As
a diverse group of animals, non‐avian reptiles [turtles, the tuatara, crocodylians, and …

Simple Summary Emotions or affective states recognition in farm animals is an
underexplored research domain. Despite significant advances in animal welfare research …

The brain organizes the continuous flow of sensory input by parsing it into discrete events. In
the case of two flashes separated by a brief ISI, for example, perception may be of a single …

General intelligence has been a topic of high interest for over a century. Traditionally,
research on general intelligence was based on principal component analyses and other …

Cognitive performance varies widely across animal species, but the processes underlying
cognitive evolution remain poorly known. For cognitive abilities to evolve, performance must …

ABSTRACT The Social Intelligence Hypothesis (SIH) is one of the leading explanations for
the evolution of cognition. Since its inception a vast body of literature investigating the …

Cognitive sex differences have been reported in several vertebrate species, mostly in spatial
abilities. Here, I review evidence of sex differences in a family of general cognitive functions …