Author: Denyse O'Leary
What Is It Like to Be a Bee?
What, exactly, does “consciousness” or “feel and think” mean when applied to a bee? This usage is no remote outpost.
Bees Feel Pain. Therefore…Insect Rights?
As we learn more from research about how various life forms respond to experiences, a more complex picture may raise political issues.
Can Old Dogs Learn New Tricks? It Depends
Not much is known for sure about how dogs age. The Dog Aging Project aims to change that through systematic research programs.
Claim: Dogs Can Form “Abstract Concepts”
It’s a good idea to be skeptical when any such claim is followed up with the assertion that humans “aren’t that cognitively unique after all.”
If Octopuses Are So Smart, Should We Eat Them?
We have tended to assume that intelligence rose with the development of a spinal cord and brain (vertebrates), and warmbloodedness (mammals and birds).