Horses have been our companions for thousands of years, serving as transportation, work partners, and beloved pets. Throughout this long relationship, they’ve been silent teachers of one of life’s ...

The fictional world is full of people who can talk to animals: Tarzan of the Apes, Mowgli from The Jungle Book, and Dr. Doolittle. But what if we really could learn to converse with apes, wolves, and ...

In the Karoo, South Africa’s vast semidesert, an African striped mouse basks in the morning warmth outside the bush it calls home. Nearby, audio equipment casts a long shadow on the rust-colored earth ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Scientists are increasingly using artificial intelligence models to decode the communications of other species. The Earth Species Project has built ...

The puggle wanted to talk about her Christmas road trip to Illinois. The pet psychic was ready to listen. Cleo, an 8-year-old pug-beagle mix, shared with Elizabeth Baudhuin, an animal communicator, ...

In 2023, researchers did something that sounds like it belongs in a Pixar movie: they decoded a humpback whale’s “hello” and used it to hold a brief back-and-forth exchange with a whale off the coast ...

The idea of a device that decodes animal sounds — turning squeaks, clicks and meows into human language — has been a staple of science fiction for decades, popping up in everything from Pixar’s Up to ...

Animals communicate in vastly different ways, but scientists lack a unifying explanation for why these diverse signals cluster around similar rhythmic tempos. Identifying a shared neural “sweet spot” ...

In the animated movie Up, a boisterous dog wears an electronic collar that translates his doggy thoughts into English words. “My master made me this collar,” he tells his new acquaintances. “He is a ...

Plants and animals have evolved all sorts of ways to make themselves more appealing to potential mates—including colorful feet, flamboyant feathers, complex mating dances and sexual deception. Many ...

Public pressure from animal rights groups and threats to the staff of Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine have prompted the school’s leadership to abruptly end long-running ...