This article surveys philosophical and scientific issues arising from questions about animal
consciousness. These questions include: which animals have consciousness and what (if …

Using cooperation in chimpanzees as a case study, this article argues that research on
animal minds needs to steer a course between 'association-blindness'—the failure to …

How should we determine the distribution of psychological traits—such as Theory of Mind,
episodic memory, and metacognition—throughout the Animal kingdom? Researchers have …

Morgan's Canon is a very widely endorsed methodological principle in animal psychology,
believed to be vital for a rigorous, scientific approach to the study of animal cognition. In …

We think of bees as being among the busiest workers in the garden, admiring them for their
productivity. But amid their buzzing, they are also great communicators—and unusual …

“Do not think, kind and benevolent readers, that I am proposing a useless subject to you by
choosing to discuss the language [loquela] of beasts. For this is nothing other than …

Animal sounds had been recorded in musical notation for centuries. By the early twentieth
century, other techniques had been developed to record such sounds. From the late 1920s …

The standard methodology of comparative psychology has long relied upon a distinction
between cognition and 'mere association'; cognitive explanations of nonhuman animals …

Abstract In 1967, American biologist Adrian Wenner (1928–) launched an extensive
challenge to Karl von Frisch's (1886–1982) theory that bees communicate to each other the …

This paper examines the content, form and function of popularized accounts of
primatological research in the field. Based on the textual analysis of 11 popular accounts …