Do the animals understand that a string of signs in one order means something different from the same signs in a different order?
Once the animals understand that there is an artificial sound source, they rapidly cease to respond unlike meerkats, Suricata suricatta, that repeatedly bring food to a loudspeaker wrapped in a plastic bag from which pup begging calls are emitted [Manser & Avey, 2000].
Frans Snyders, old master and founder of Baroque still life with animals, understood the unexpected and its power to surprise and used it to animate his work.
The last line of the article, intended to show how perhaps elephants don't quite get death after all, is a word for word description of what human grief is: "They were saying goodbye, or maybe, Won't you please come back home?" Eyal Nevo New York To the Editor: It isn't surprising that the more intelligent animals understand death.
Here we review our current understanding of performance on the Aesop's Fable tasks, and suggest that studies controlling for feedback and object preferences will help us determine exactly what animals understand about the cause and effect of water displacement.
Researchers have used the mirror self-recognition test to determine whether animals understand that they exist as separate entities in the world, with their own thoughts and minds.
Researchers use a simple but powerful test to see if animals understand pointing.
Contrary to popular belief, animals understand quite a lot; they are not stupid.
It's a concept so simple that even animals understand -- give a dog a bone, and it will obey.
To ascertain whether the animals fully understood the predicted gambles' values and meaningfully maximized utility during choices under risk, we tested first-order stochastic dominance in choices between a safe reward and a gamble whose low or high outcome equaled the safe reward [ 2].
