The idea of an animal that can count or do math might sound like something out of a viral news story or TikTok video. But a sense of quantity, sometimes called "numerosity," appears across a ...

An understanding of numbers is often viewed as a distinctly human faculty—a hallmark of our intelligence that, along with language, sets us apart from all other animals. Practically every animal that ...

Drusillas Park has completed its annual animal census, counting more than 800 mammals, birds, reptiles, insects and fish at ...

Editor's Note: In the fifth graf, the number of African savannah elephants left in the wild was updated to 415,000. For the first time, scientists have successfully used satellite cameras coupled with ...

Every night during breeding season, the male túngara frog of Central America will stake out a performance patch in the local pond and spend unbroken hours broadcasting his splendor to the world. The ...

Researchers counted more than 18,000 animals in the drone images from July 5, 2019. Colored dots represent individuals of different species. Seals and sea lions crowd the beach on Año Nuevo Island.

But that couldn’t be further from the truth. Honeybees count landmarks when navigating toward sources of nectar. Lionesses tally the number of roars they hear from an intruding pride before deciding ...