Animal cognition
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Animal cognition encompasses the mental capacities of non-human animals, including insect cognition. The study of animal conditioning and learning used in this field was developed from comparative psy
A monkey drinking Frooti from a juice box using its hands
The common chimpanzee can use tools. This individual is using a stick to get food.
A bonobo inserting a stick into a termite mound
The bonobo starts "fishing" for the termites.
Cetacean intelligence
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Cetacean intelligence is the overall intelligence and derived cognitive ability of aquatic mammals belonging in the infraorder Cetacea, including baleen whales, porpoises, and dolphins. In 2014, a stu
Animal cognition
…the term animal intelligence are also subsumed within animal cognition. Researchers have examined animal cognition in mammals (especially primates, cetaceans, elephants, bears, dogs, cats, pigs, horses, cattle, raccoons and rodents), birds (including parrots, fowl, corvids and pigeons), reptiles (lizards…
A female bottlenose dolphin performing with her trainer. They are considered one of the most intelligent cetaceans.
Brain of the sperm whale, considered the largest brain in the animal kingdom
Brain of a human (left), compared to that of a black rhinoceros (center) and a common dolphin (right)
Members of a southern resident orca family unit travelling in formation with the mother and youngest offspring in the centre