Elephants are not only extremely intelligent but have the ability to express deep empathy for others. They form close family ...

What’s in a name? People use unique names to address each other, but we’re one of only a handful of animal species known to do that, including bottlenose dolphins. Finding more animals with names and ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

Baby animals share many similarities with human babies. Baby chimpanzees will cry when their needs aren't being met. All babies love to cuddle up with their moms and look to them for protection. And ...

Animal cognition scientists designed an open-air experiment to test wild elephants’ problem-solving abilities for the first time. They observed that Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) at Salakpra ...