If you spend enough time around animals, you'll see that a lot of them are smarter than we may give them credit for. For example, the world's smartest dog breed is more intelligent than a four ...

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Google is harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to study how dolphins communicate with the ultimate goal of enabling humans to one day talk with them.

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Starting in the 1970s, researchers identified a beautiful system of specialised cells in the hippocampus (the brain’s memory centre) and entorhinal cortex (an area that deals with memory, navigation, ...

"Octopus!" (Courtesy of Prime) These characteristics are compared to human traits, leading many to conclude that octopuses are remarkably intelligent. But as Piero Amodio, an animal behavior and ...

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The animals "impersonate all sorts of animals ... This allows the sea creatures to have intelligent arms. The arms of the octopus essentially have "mini-brains" and can each act independently.

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The octopus, which can manipulate objects with its arms and solve problems, is an example of an intelligent animal whose ancestors (as far as we know) never lived on land. But it’s hard to ...