The surprising ways in which machine learning is decoding the animal mind.
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Measuring the heart rate of animlas can reveal their changing emotional state, even when their behaviour stays the same.
Research suggests that people can learn to read cats’ facial expressions.
Recognising animals as sentient means welfare laws must consider animals’ feelings as well as their physical conditions.
Dogs have the same hormones and experience the same chemical changes that humans do.
When humans are happy, they may smile, or laugh, or dance - but what do animals do? Melissa, age 12, wants to know how she can tell if her cat is happy and likes you.
Scientists are beginning to link animal facial expressions to emotions, making it possible for us to understand how they feel.
Pain is a subjective experience that often relies on talking to patients so it’s harder to know what animals think.
Are animals jealous? How would we know? Scientists are educated to have a deep scepticism about attributing sophisticated mental abilities to non-human animals. Anthropomorphism is regarded as a scientific…
An elephant that supposedly cried tears when it was being rescued from an abusive home where it had been captive for 50 years created much excitment on social media. The experience of being cut loose from…
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