CALL FOR PAPERSThe Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behaviour Association (PAMBA) invites submissions of abstracts for its 2027 biennial meeting, which will be held at the University of Warwick on April...

A series of stunning findings about great apes’ mental capabilities in recent years has transformed how we see our closest relatives

Brokering peace in the ape (culture) wars - Volume 8

Join our join workshop organised by the LSE Anthropology Department and the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience and hear from world-leading researchers.

Biology & Philosophy - We propose that minimal morality (experiencing “ought-thoughts”) and minimal normativity (having expectations or “standards”) historically emerged...

A growing acceptance that many nonhuman animal communities have distinct cultures – group-variable patterns of behavior and information sustained over time by social learning – is beginning to reshape...

A growing acceptance that many nonhuman animal communities have distinct cultures – group-variable patterns of behavior and information sustained over time by social learning – is beginning to reshape...

Malherbe and colleagues provide evidence for cultural gestural dialects in four chimpanzee groups and document a unique case of cultural loss associated with anthropogenic pressure.

In this paper, I will argue that chimpanzees deploy some normative sensitivity when they select (i) materials they will use to manufacture tools and (ii) objects to be used as tools. To defend this cl...

Cambridge Core - Developmental Psychology - The Three Pillars of Ethical Research with Nonhuman Primates

Previous studies suggest that social learning in bumblebees can occur through second-order conditioning, with conspecifics functioning as first-order reinforcers. However, the behavioural mechanisms u...

Evidence that animals mourn the death of loved ones is growing, but we should be wary of letting our biases cloud this topic, says philosopher Susana Monsó

What Are Zoos For?; Heather Browning and Walter Veit test the common justifications for zoos (entertainment, education, research, conservation) against the evidence and suggest what the best zoos of t...

The social intelligence hypothesis suggests that cognitive capacities evolved because of selection pressures related to increasing social complexity. …

Like big, tall trees in old-growth forests, older animals are irreplaceable. Pulling them out leaves the ecosystem less resilient to future shocks. It’s time for ‘longevity conservation’ measures.

The mindshaping hypothesis proposes a “de-intellectualized” explanation for human unique cooperation. In contrast to standard mindreading accounts, which emphasize the evolution of sophisticated reaso...