Domestic chickens are members of an order, Aves, which has been the focus of a revolution
in our understanding of neuroanatomical, cognitive, and social complexity. At least some …

Nonhuman animals are ubiquitous to human life, and permeate a diversity of social contexts
by providing humans with food and clothing, serving as participants in research, improving …

In this thought-provoking book, the acclaimed author of Our Inner Ape examines how
empathy comes naturally to a great variety of animals, including humans. Are we our …

This Element provides an accessible introduction to ecosemiotics and demonstrates its
pertinence for the study of today's unstable culture-nature relations. Ecosemiotics can be …

Empathy covers a range of phenomena from cognitive empathy involving
metarepresentation to emotional contagion stemming from automatically triggered reflexes …

Davila-Ross, M., Allcock, B., Thomas, C., and Bard, KA 2011. A** expressions?
Chimpanzees produce distinct laugh types when responding to laughter of others. Emotion …

Humans favor others seen as similar to themselves (ingroup) over people seen as different
(outgroup), even without explicitly stated bias. Ingroup-outgroup bias extends to involuntary …

While relatively little is known about the psychology of domestic pigs, what is known
suggests that pigs are cognitively complex and share many traits with animals whom we …

Yawn contagion in humans has been proposed to be related to our capacity for empathy. It
is presently unclear whether this capacity is uniquely human or shared with other primates …

Driven by both applied and theoretical goals, scientific interest in canine cognition has
experienced a rapid surge in popularity, especially over the last 15 years. Here we provide …