But cleverness is hard to define - animals have to contend with different challenges in life and what might be clever or ...

Photographs that are automatically collected by motion-sensor cameras can be automatically described by deep neural networks. The result is a system that can automate animal identification for up to ...

Here is a great word for you. It is long, but it sounds really cool and describes a unique behavior. The word is crepuscular. (Pronounced cray-pus-cue-lar.) You might have to ask an adult to help you ...

Dr. Stanley Coren wrote a great article a while ago debunking the "alpha dog" theory. Although his science is spot on, I suggest that we need to take it a step further and not just consider our ...

In my May 11 article, "Is the Language We Are Using to Describe Our Pets Sending the Wrong Message?" I pointed out that the Journal of Animal Ethics has called for the ban of a number of common words ...

I’ve always been fascinated by language and the power of words. As Marin Humane’s director of marketing and communications, language, and, specifically, words, are key to my work. Words allow us to ...

Australian Catholic University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The use of this language to describe animal behaviour isn’t common across most of the history of the natural ...

A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reports how a cutting-edge artificial intelligence technique called deep learning can automatically identify, count and ...