The perception of self and others is a key aspect of social cognition. In order to investigate
the neurobiological basis of this distinction we reviewed two classes of task that study self …

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 …

* La traducción castellana de las citas del libreto de esta ópera están tomadas (con ligeras
modificaciones) de< http://www. elpais. com/corporativos/elpais/coleccionables/2006 …

Cognition presents evolutionary research with one of its greatest challenges. Cognitive
evolution has been explained at the proximate level by shifts in absolute and relative brain …

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 …

What explains the superior cognitive abilities of the human brain compared to other, larger
brains? Here we investigate the possibility that the human brain has a larger number of …

Contact directed by uninvolved bystanders toward others in distress, often termed
consolation, is uncommon in the animal kingdom, thus far only demonstrated in the great …

Highlights•We used an object choice task to test elephant sensory perception.•We tested
whether elephants use acoustic or olfactory cues to find food.•Elephants did not use acoustic …

Some animals are capable of recognizing themselves in a mirror, which is considered to be
demonstrated by passing the mark test. Mirror self-recognition capacity has been found in …

Kim Sterelny and Daniel McShea for helpful comments and suggestions on earlier papers
on the topic that I also included within the present work. Kristian Köchy for a series of …