In the lab where I trained animals in sensory discrimination tasks, another graduate student had taped a cartoon to the lab door, showing two rats in a Skinner box having a deep conversation. Pointing ...

Jon Garthoff does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Ambuj Tewari receives funding from NSF and NIH. Understanding intelligence and creating intelligent machines are grand scientific challenges of our times. The ability to learn from experience is a ...

Eunice Framm, senior keeper of barnyard animals at the Cincinnati Zoo, has taught pigs to bowl, goats to paint, and red pandas to receive vaccines. She, and all other keepers, do so through the zoo’s ...

Training farm animals becomes much more effective when you stop thinking of it as “teaching commands” and start seeing it as teamwork. Animals are not machines they have emotions, instincts, and their ...