84. Chimps Show Altruistic Streak
01.15.2008
74. Musical Scales Mimic the Sound of Language
The harmonics of human vocalization may generate the frequencies used in music. 01.14.2008
Birds Navigate Using Magnetic Compass-Vision
Combined with a GPS beak, it leads them on marathon migrations. 10.30.2007
Pavlovian Cockroaches Learn Like Dogs (and Humans)
Training bugs may help us understand our own brains. 09.05.2007
Evolution in Your Brain
Gerald Edelman says only the fittest neurons survive. 07.03.2007
Raw Data: The Ancient Chimp Stone Age
Chimps created tools like humans' over 4,000 years ago. 05.23.2007
Lingua Franca
What your dog says when it barks. 04.12.2007
Not So Fast, Einstein
Human brain evolution seems to be slowing. 04.11.2007
Why Fathers Know Best
Babies aren't the only ones with developing brains. 11.21.2006
The Battle for #2 in Primate IQ
Who is our smartest relative? 11.10.2006
Your Color Gives You Away
Meet the emotionally naked ape. 06.25.2006
Drowsy Drosophila
Do arthropods dream of eclectic sweets? 06.08.2006
Relax And Think Like A Rat
People and animals learn best when given breaks between tasks. 05.28.2006
Whatever Happened To... Talking to Dolphins?
05.28.2006
Secrets Of Bat Machismo
In some species, a successful male doesn't need much of a brain. 05.28.2006
Nemo Goes To College
Nemo Goes to College 04.27.2006
Midnight Ramblers
Night helps birds navigate earth's magnetic field. 04.07.2006
Cop Wasps vs. Drug Smugglers
02.20.2006
Dead Resolutions
Why the brain can't break habits. 01.19.2006
The Year in Science: Ornithology
01.08.2006
The Year in Science: Neuroscience
01.08.2006
Small Minds Think Alike
12.01.2005
Biologists Crack Code of Chickadee Song
Biologists Crack Code of Chickadee Song 10.24.2005
Big Blue to Build a Brain
Big Blue to Build a Brain 09.09.2005
School of Flock
05.01.2005
What Do Animals Think?
Temple Grandin says animals think like autistic humans. She should know 05.01.2005
The Kind of Face Only a Wasp Could Trust
02.06.2005
85: A Dog Outsmarts Some 3-Year-Olds
01.03.2005
87: Songbirds Have Southern Roots
01.03.2005
Lassie—Get the Oncologist!
11.15.2004
Honeybees—Espionage Mission
10.01.2004
A-maze-ing Mole Rats
04.21.2004
Swifter, Higher, Stronger Rats
03.28.2004
Monkeys Show They Know What They Know
03.28.2004
Stalking Spiders
Tarantulas reveal intriguing mammal-like behaviors, says a scientist who cares enough to study them (not to mention keep 500 of them alive in his lab) 02.05.2004
Zoology
01.02.2004
Artistic Neurons
11.10.2003
Through the Eye of an Octopus
An exploration of the brainpower of a lowly mollusk 10.01.2003
The Smart, Speechless Types
06.01.2003
Neuroscience
01.01.2003
We're Not Dead Yet
01.01.2003
Works in Progress
How do migrating birds know where to go? 12.01.2002
Move Over, Rover—Let the Rat-Narc Take Over
09.01.2002
Linguistics
Year In Science 01.13.2002
Biology
Year In Science 01.13.2002
A Big Warning From Bird-Brain Research
12.01.2001
Rat Dreams
Oh great—now we'll have rat psychologists 10.01.2001
Dark Side of the Genome
06.01.2001
Hairy Calculators
06.01.2000
Landlubber Genes
05.01.2000
Baywatch
They're sexy, smart, sociable, playful, fast, and very independent--no wonder biologist Randall Wells has spent more than 30 years spying on bottlenose dolphins 03.01.2000
Let Sleeping Dogs Arise
The discovery of an abnormal gene in narcoleptic pooches may soon lead to relief for millions of people who suffer from chronic insomnia 02.01.2000
Morals, Apes, and Us
Can animals learn to share, cooperate, punish, and show empathy? 02.01.2000
Polly Wanna Ph.D.?
How smart can an animal get? Ask Irene Pepperberg's parrots. They'll be glad to discuss the subject with you 01.01.2000
Eye of the Beast
The next time a panther stares you down, just try to imagine what the world looks like from its point of view 12.01.1999
Monkey See, Human Do?
09.01.1999
Brain Jogging
06.01.1999
Octoplay
11.01.1998
Bird Brains
08.01.1998
The Year in Science: Earth 1997
His Chickens Quail 01.01.1998
The Year in Science: Genetics 1997
Loner Mice 01.01.1998
Dolphin Monkeys
12.01.1997
Quantum Honeybees
How could bees of little brain come up with anything as complex as a dance language? 11.01.1997
Are We in Anthropodenial?
To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us. 07.01.1997
A Head for Numbers
Everybody has one--even rats and pigeons, to say nothing of people. The ability to grasp small numbers and map them onto a number line in the brain is an evolutionary birthright of ours. Arithmetic, of course, is another matter. 07.01.1997
A Bee Sees (Symmetry)
12.01.1996
The Tarzan Syndrome
Only apes, it seems, alone among all the animals, can truly distinguish themselves fromt he world around them. But only the naked apes, apparently, can conceive of not just self but other. 11.01.1996
The Flight of the Butterfly
05.01.1996
Pressure in the Bat Cave
03.01.1996
The Fake Smell of Death
Novel chemicals may help teach dogs to sniff out corpses, drugs, and bombs. 03.01.1996
Dr. Sigmund Doolittle
02.01.1996
Apes of Wrath
08.01.1995
A Cult of Proteins
02.01.1995
Dog-eared
07.01.1994
The Young and the Reckless
Every day young primates leave the comfort of home to live through weeks and months of abuse at the hands of beastly strangers. Why in the world do they--and we--do it? 03.01.1993
Rio, the Logical Sea Lion
02.01.1993
The Days of Swine and Roses
09.01.1992
Ugly Human at Two O'Clock
06.01.1992
What's Love Got to Do With It
Sex among our closest relatives is a rather open affair. 06.01.1992