The entomology literature has historically suggested insects cannot feel pain, leading to
their exclusion from ethical debates and animal welfare legislation. However, there may be …

Animal cognition experiments frequently reveal striking individual variation but rarely
consider its causes and largely ignore its potential consequences. Studies often focus on a …

Social network analysis methods have made it possible to test whether novel behaviors in
animals spread through individual or social learning. To date, however, social network …

Despite prolonged interest in comparing brain size and behavioral proxies of" intelligence"
across taxa, the adaptive and cognitive significance of brain size variation remains elusive …

Direct replication studies follow an original experiment's methods as closely as possible.
They provide information about the reliability and validity of an original study's findings. The …

Highlights•Studies in social bees have proposed various forms of sophisticated
cognition.•Bees display a variety of cognitive phenomena including attention, social learning …

The “social brain hypothesis” posits that the cognitive demands of sociality have driven the
evolution of substantially enlarged brains in primates and some other mammals. Whether …

Integrating knowledge and principles of animal behavior into wildlife conservation and
management has led to some concrete successes but has failed to improve conservation …

The ability to perceive the number of objects has been known to exist in vertebrates for a few
decades, but recent behavioral investigations have demonstrated that several invertebrate …

Comparative cognitive and behavior research aims to investigate cognitive evolution by
comparing performance in different species to understand how these abilities have evolved …