Copiphora gorgonensis, a South American katydid found to have remarkably human-like ears in a study released Nov. 16 in the journal Science. (Image credit: Daniel Robert and Fernando Montealegre-Zapata) Humans have complex ears to translate sound waves into mechanical vibrations our brains can ...
Your feline friend is smart, there’s no doubt about that. But even with science, it’s hard to gauge how smart cats truly are. While it’s true that dogs may have a slight advantage in terms of the number of neurons in their brains, animal intelligence manifests in various ways, and...
When addressing preverbal infants and family dogs, people tend to use specific speech styles. While recent studies suggest acoustic parallels between infant- and dog-directed speech, it is unclear whether dogs, like infants, show enhanced neural sensitivity to prosodic aspects of speech directed to ...
But are they smart like humans or more than cats or dogs? Dolphins use their brains differently from people. But scientists say dolphin intelligence and human intelligence are similar in some ways. How? Fact 1: Talk to me Like humans, every dolphin has its own “name”. The name is a ...
And according to research by Harvard scientists, their brains are a lot like the human brain, filled with interconnected, constantly chattering neurons. No matter how much rats resemble humans, they do need to be controlled, as they can spread a wealth of serious and even fatal diseases to ...
Man has a big brain. He can think, learn and speak. Scientists thought that men are different from animals because they can think and learn. They know now that dogs, cats and birds can learn too. They are beginning to understand that. They make noises when they are afraid, or angry or...
We live in a society in which there is so much change, so much technology and a huge amount of ambiguity – it's almost like our brains haven't evolved effectively to tolerate and deal with the speed of these changes in the way that we need to. We need emotional agility today ...
Nobody would ever make the argument that cats are omnivores based on what they're capable of eating. That would be silly. But they sure make that argument about humans, enthusiastically.Our so-called "canine teeth" are "canine" in name only. Other plant-eaters (like gorillas, horses, and...
They’re “gross and slimy and flaccid and wiggling.” But parasites can be just as important as more charismatic animals—and many may be on the verge of disappearing.
1 The year of 2018 is the Year of the Dog. Dogs are man's best friend. They are very smart. According to National Geographic(国家地理网站), dogs are smarter than cats. They have more neurons(神经元)in their brains(大脑). Neurons help transmit(传送)message. Dogs can learn to count....