A growing body of research suggests that animals—from frogs to crows—can perform primitive math through a system called the ...

Water and air pose completely different challenges to animals on a number of levels.

Researchers used a $2.3 million grant from NCInnovation, which supports commercializing research discoveries, to develop a ...

The AI microscope will automate the tedious job of fecal egg counting, which is used to identify parasites in farm animals.

But it's likely that these species "cannot count in the way that we mean this in humans," Beran pointed out. Instead, many animals have a cognitive tool that scientists call the approximate number ...

As our modern society gets more resource-intensive, natural spaces are shrinking and wildlife numbers are declining. Our 2024 Living Planet Report shows the average size of wildlife populations has ...

Humans and many animals can glance at a small group of objects and instantly know “there are three” without consciously counting. True counting, by contrast, involves sequentially enumerating items ...

Studies at the University of Oxford have shown that rats possess a natural ability to count and perform simple calculations. When trained to press a lever a specific number of times to receive a ...

The street name ʻEhā translates as the number “four” or “four times,” but it could vary depending on spelling and pronunciation. Counting in the Hawaiian language, or ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi ...

The Elkhart County Christmas Bird Count started as a Sunday tradition, then transitioned to the last Saturday of the count cycle. We began to attract the Amish birding community to participate. One ...

The number of people in the count without any shelter was 1,162 in September, an increase of 426 from 12 months ago. "There's no doubt that homelessness [has worsened] and houseless community ...