At a recent neighborhood gathering I found myself chatting with a woman who told me, "Dogs are really smart. My dog Robbie can read my moods better than my eight-year-old son Steven." Her part of the ...

A birthday gift became one of the most remarkable experiments in animal cognition. Chaser, a Border Collie from Spartanburg, South Carolina, held the largest tested memory of any non-human animal — ...

I post regularly here at 13.7 about animal cognition, crediting a variety of animals — including some of our daily companions — with the ability to think. So I'd forgive anyone for wondering if my ...