So far in this series of articles about learning and education, I've said almost nothing about teaching. That has been deliberate. In our culture we do too much teaching, or too much of what we call ...

One of the things that has stood out to me most in the wake of the Eaton fire is the generosity of animal lovers worldwide. So many people have reached out to send their well wishes and offer us ...

"It gives me another way of kind of like really having them come the house regularly," he says Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images Arnold Schwarzenegger is passing his love for animals onto his grandchildren ...

Humans have long been fascinated by the idea of communicating with other species — not just teaching animals to mimic human words, but truly understanding their calls or cries, and interpreting their ...

Tanesha Hutchinson’s pre-K classroom at Virginia Avenue Charlotte DeHart Elementary School was recently overrun by all manners of wild beasts — lethal lions, tenacious tortoises, rampaging rhinos and ...

As the people who read my articles know, I am fascinated by natural phenomena. I am particularly taken by our fellow animals and their relationship to us and to each other. Though my evidence is, for ...

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 ...

The serval did not want to go into her crate. The spotted cat's name was Naomi, she had just been weighed, and now it was time to do as she was told. "C'mon — in your crate," urged Thomas Barber, a ...

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 ...