So, which animals can count and understand simple math? "Many species, including insects, mollusks, lizards, birds and many ...

When tasked with picking between two fruit-fly-filled tubes, the animals could tell the difference between 1, 2 and 3 flies, but not between 3 and 4. They also discriminated between larger numbers ...

Whatever the case, our number sense is not unique in the animal kingdom. In fact, it may not be something that's reserved to just animals: Venus flytraps can also "count." Original article on Live ...

Animals Count and Use Zero. ... While children usually grasp the counting numbers by age 4, it often takes another two years for them to gain an understanding of zero as a number.

Many wild animals 'count'—and it helps them survive to another day. One of the most sweeping analyses of animals using numbers has revealed it’s a widespread—and likely vital—skill in nature.

A study of an Amazonian tribe is stoking fierce debate about whether people can count without numbers. Psychologists, anthropologists and linguists have long wondered whether animals, young ...

A study finds that carrion crows can be taught to count and make vocalizations that indicate the number counted, much in the same way that human toddlers do.

Several species of animal can count, but only humans can do so using abstract number symbols like ‘2’ or ‘4’. Now we know we do so using a different set of brain cells from those we use to ...