I show animals displaying surprising problem-solving skills and even acts of revenge.

From problem-solving to emotional intelligence, these five animals exhibit brainpower that rivals humans.

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are ...

Many animals have been studied and observed to have an incredible capacity for intelligence. Some of the most commonly cited ...

The smartest cow ever lives in Austria and uses tools to solve problems, challenging what we know about cattle intelligence.

When a curious raccoon broke into an Ashland, Virginia, liquor store in December 2025, sampled the stock and passed out on the bathroom floor, the story went viral within minutes. The local animal ...

Veronika’s story is a reminder of the complex inner lives of animals. The ability to adapt tools for personal use challenges long-standing beliefs about the hierarchy of intelligence among species. It ...

Auersperg and her colleague Antonio J. Osuna-Mascaró conducted an in-depth study of Veronika’s tool use, focusing on a deck brush that she used to scratch various parts of her body. Their observations ...

Even though its brain is smaller than a grain of rice, this spider plans ahead, adapts mid-hunt and outsmarts prey larger ...

Animal groups show how simple actions create shared intelligence, shaping technology, health research, and crowd safety.

The “Tool-Using” Wolf Seeing a gray wolf haul a crab trap out of the ocean looks like a scene from a science documentary that ...