They are not renowned for their brainpower, but pigeons may be as smart as monkeys when it comes to arithmetic. Three pigeons were shown a computer screen displaying images with one, two or three ...

Cognitive neuroscientists have shown that babies have an abstract numerical sense, as demonstrated by their ability to match the number of voices they hear to the number of faces they expect to see.

In 1999, Loren Madsen sculpted the United States’ role as the world’s biggest penal colony. To illustrate the fact that a quarter of the globe’s eight million prisoners were locked up in the land of ...

Researchers are studying the impact of technology which effectively offers zoo animals their own versions of Spotify and Netflix. Scientists at the University of Glasgow have created a "monkey media ...