Farm animal welfare is a major concern for society and food production. To more accurately
evaluate animal farming in general and to avoid exposing farm animals to poor welfare …

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 …

Animal domestication leads to diverse behavioral, physiological, and neurocognitive
changes in domesticated species compared to their wild relatives. However, the widely held …

Cats'(Felis catus) communicative behaviour towards humans was explored using a social
referencing paradigm in the presence of a potentially frightening object. One group of cats …

Innovation is the ability to solve new problems or find novel solutions to familiar problems,
and it is known to provide animals with crucial fitness benefits. Although this ability has been …

Research on the comprehension of human-given cues by domesticated as well as non-
domesticated species has received considerable attention over the last decade. While …

How animals gain information from attending to the behavior of others has been widely
studied, driven partly by the importance of referential pointing in human cognitive …

Introduction The computational demands of sociality (maintaining group cohesion, reducing
conflict) and ecological problems (extractive foraging, memorizing resource locations) are …

Differences in pet dogs' and captive wolves' ability to follow human communicative intents
have led to the proposition of several hypotheses regarding the possession and …

Laboratory strains of rats are a commonly used subject to study play behavior. Recent
research has shown that play in one laboratory strain of rat (eg, Long-Evans hooded) differs …