Simple Summary Animal sentience refers to the ability of animals to experience pleasurable
states such as joy, and aversive states such as pain and fear (Broom, DM Dis. Aquat. Org …

Highlights•Cognitive research run in zoos is topically representative of the field
generally.•Most zoo research is with primates, but there is little work with other species.•Zoos …

Elephants are widely assumed to be among the most cognitively advanced animals, even
though systematic evidence is lacking. This void in knowledge is mainly due to the danger …

Anxiety is the most prevalent psychiatric problem of our time. Decades of research have
gone into probing its mysteries and developing treatments. But what if we've been thinking …

The behaviour of animals towards their mirror image (“mirror test”) is routinely used as a
proxy to measure aggression levels, especially in fish. The lack of evidence for visual self …

The “aha” moment or the sudden arrival of the solution to a problem is a common human
experience. Spontaneous problem solving without evident trial and error behavior in …

The ability to discriminate between quantities has been observed in many species. Typically,
when an animal is given a choice between two sets of food, accurate performance (ie …

Animals were vital to the British colonization of Myanmar. In this pathbreaking history of
British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942, Jonathan Saha …

the last common ancestor, the name H. rhodesiensis would take priority if the Broken Hill
fossil is included. However, a study on Pleistocene and modern human mandibles argues …

Species-specific aesthetics is an important consideration for interaction designers working
with animals. The paper explores the concept of species-specific aesthetics with particular …