People often assign feelings to animals that zoo polar bear's vacant stare must mean he's sad, or the uh-oh expression a dog flashes after knocking over the garbage indicates shame. But scientists ...

Joanne Lefson, who has studied the mindset behind animal art, offers a deep dive into how and why animals paint and what ...

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group Only a decade ago, the idea that dogs and other animals had feelings would have been laughed at. Tell us about your work with MRIs and what it can tell us about the ...

"I'm not saying other animals don’t have feelings, just that they are different between different species of animals." However these feelings and emotions are expressed — whether with the wag ...

Yet for many decades the idea of animals feeling emotions or having personalities was dismissed by behavioural scientists. This strange view arose from the 17th-century philosopher René Descartes ...

But the more we learn, the less "other" they seem to become: Marc Bekoff, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Colorado, says he’s convinced that animals feel emotional pain for their ...

Anything smacking of “feelings” in animals was dismissively discredited as “anthropomorphic” and “unscientific.” Because of clear evidence to the contrary, that narrow viewpoint is ...

Individuals who claim animals have feelings are usually accused of anthropomorphism--ascribing human traits to nonhuman beings. But after years of ignoring or discounting what pet lovers have long ...