The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. There are a lot of reasons to go out in nature to look around. It makes us feel calmer and happier. It ...

Did you know goldfish can learn to drive cars? Have you heard bumblebees can learn to pull on a string? Would you believe some primates can perform calculations with Arabic numerals? These tasks seem ...

Why do some animals solve problems while others don't? The new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, now featured on the cover of Oikos, tackles this question with an ...

When people think of intelligent animals, they immediately think of dolphins, elephants, and chimpanzees. But one of the most intelligent problem-solvers is hiding deep beneath the surface, called the ...

Scarlett Howard currently has funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation. These tasks seem completely irrelevant to these animals in their natural environment, so why ...