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

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

For example, when the ratio between the shapes on the two doors was 1:2 (8 versus 16) or 2:3 (8 versus 12), the fish chose the correct door more often than by chance.