The findings indicate that bonobos—or at least that Kanzi had—have the capacity to imagine, says Christopher Krupenye, an ...

Discover seven unusual galaxies defying scientific predictions, from impossibly bright early universe objects to astrophysics ...

Horses detect human fear through smell alone and exhibit fearful behavior through emotional contagion mechanism.

Over the next decades, robots are expected to make their way into a growing number of households, public spaces, and ...

A new study shows a bonobo can track pretend juice and grapes, suggesting apes also have imagination, not only humans.

In A Nutshell Horses detect human fear through scent alone. French researchers exposed horses to cotton pads soaked with ...

Amalia Bastos first met Kanzi the bonobo in 2023. Bastos was “starstruck,” she recalls: Kanzi was famous for learning how to communicate with humans using a keyboard of symbols. Upon first seeing ...

Researchers from INRAE and IFCE have demonstrated that fear-related human chemical cues influence horse behaviour through ...

By now, it's no secret that large language models (LLMs) are experts at mimicking natural language. Trained on vast troves of data, these models have proven themselves capable of generating text so ...

A newly developed AI control system using neuron-inspired learning enables soft robotic arms to learn a broad set of motions ...

Researchers from The University of Osaka compared psychological ratings of various words from humans and large language models (LLMs) along different dimensions in order to compare the ways in which ...

Olfaction is the sense most widely used by animals to communicate. Although this sense has been studied mainly in the context of reproduction within a ...