A new study provides the first evidence of transitive inference, the ability to use known relationships to infer unknown relationships, in a nonvertebrate animal: the lowly paper wasp. A new ...

Mastering the art of deduction was once thought to be a singularly human skill, but research has since shown that animals, including chimpanzees, birds, rats, fish and geese, are capable of using a ...

Editor's Note: This article was provided by The Conversation. The original can be found here. Calling something a “scientific truth” is a double-edged sword. On the one hand it carries a kind of ...