For years, scientists have tried to understand how animals express emotions. Unlike humans, they cannot describe their feelings, leaving researchers to rely on behavioral and physiological cues.

Mammals have the same brain areas required to feel emotions as humans do, and bird brains contain similar structures for thinking and feeling. Animals may also go out of their way to spend time ...

The scientific journal Science ran a feature on the current state of AI technology that scans the faces of animals to identify them and detect when they are unwell. Since Charles Darwin suggested ...

A. Using preference, motivation and aversion test to ask scientific questions about animals’ feelings. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 100, 29–47 (2006). Real, L. A. Animal choice behavior ...

Additionally, we are expanding the scientific understanding of animal feelings by employing a novel research method, which involves the documentation of canine cognitive capacity. This information can ...