ABSTRACT A common, long‐held belief is that metabolic rate drives the rates of various
biological, ecological and evolutionary processes. Although this metabolic pacemaker view …

Over the last 20 years, a large amount of research has been conducted in an attempt to
uncover the cognitive abilities of the domestic dog. While substantial advancements have …

Sentience–the ability to feel, perceive and experience–is central to the animal welfare
debate as it raises the question of whether animals experience suffering in life and death …

It is still a widespread assumption that metaphysics and ontology deal with roughly the same
questions. They are supposed to be concerned with the fundamental nature of reality and to …

Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first
truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model …

The existence of a synthetic program of research on what was then termed the “nocturnal
problem” and that we might now call “nighttime ecology” was declared more than 70 years …

Causal interactions within complex systems such as the brain can be analyzed at multiple
spatiotemporal levels. It is widely assumed that the micro level is causally complete, thus …

There is no proverbial silver bullet for mitigating human–wildlife conflict, but the study of
animal behaviour is foundational to solving issues of coexistence between people and wild …

This book attempts to advance Donald Griffin's vision of the" final, crowning chapter of the
Darwinian revolution" by develo** a philosophy for the science of animal consciousness …

Behavioral responses of fishes to variability in environmental conditions and habitat quality
are central to population-level demographic processes. Although field surveys can correlate …