Childhood is a key period for acquiring and transmitting cultural knowledge and skill. Hunter-gatherer children, such as the Congolese BaYaka, learn a…

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New research looks for patterns in this sad phenomenon.

Alex was an African grey parrot who transformed our understanding of animal intelligence. Over more than 30 years of research with Dr. Irene Pepperberg, Alex challenged long-held assumptions about avi...

Cultural learning permeates human skill and knowledge acquisition. To understand its importance for nonhuman apes, we analyzed just under 7000 records of behavioral bouts of social and individual lear...

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Continuous video stills documenting an unprovoked alert-to-quiescent-to-alert transition sequence in an individual wild Sepia officinalis. Panels (A–B) show the individual exhibiting localized arm L1...

Children are vulnerable to disease, yet are poor at recognizing and avoiding sickness. We recruited 5–9-year-olds (N = 120, 38% female, 60% White, 48% Hispanic/Latine) to test whether children's sick...

We discuss a historical report of chimpanzees Pan troglodytes using stone tools to forage for large oysters Crassostrea tulipa at the Sierra Leone River estuary in 1678, a behaviour that was also note...

Curiosity, the intrinsic motivation to investigate and gain information, is fundamental to human intelligence. However, like other cognitive capacities that ...

Footage posted by a conservancy group offers an unusual glimpse of a common behavior by dolphins that often goes unobserved.

Natural sciences; Biological sciences; Zoology; Evolutionary biology

Our geometric intuition, long considered something that sets us apart, seems to be shared with other primates.