Josh McGirk was skeptical about animal communicators. The south Denver resident loved his four-legged family members and was at his wits’ end after adopting a new cat, Amelie, who his two other cats ...

Most pet owners are likely familiar with those moments when they look at their animal and wonder: Is my dog happy? Or is it perhaps in pain without me knowing? After all, animals can’t tell us ...

"If you are feeling guilty and frustrated, they feel that as unstable or unbalanced energy, and it scares them.” –Barbara Rawson Credit: Barbara Rawson Photography No matter how strong an owner’s bond ...

There are many forms of animal communication. In the lyrics of Let’s Do It, Cole Porter celebrated the diversity of signals that birds, bees, oysters, clams, sponges, and electric eels produce to ...

It’s a question that has fascinated researchers and thinkers of various traditions. Animals and humans have always interpenetrated and shaped each other’s worlds, but the project of understanding how ...

Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don't? It's one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind and communication. Across all cultures, humans use richly expressive ...

Over the last decades, researchers who study animal behavior have succeeded in largely blurring the line between Homo sapiens and other animals. Like their human counterparts, animals feel emotions, ...

Last fall, Los Angeles resident Jordin Silver’s beloved tuxedo cat, Vinyl Richie, quickly and suddenly fell ill. Silver and her girlfriend were at a loss as to what could have caused it. “We were very ...