Animal Cognition

  • The Vocabulary Gradient

    The words for mind were engineered to fit one bolt: human, embodied, self-narrating cognition. Point them…

  • The Useless Things

    Play is expensive. An animal at play burns calories, misses foraging opportunities, and exposes itself to…

  • One for Everyone, One for You

    Killer whale biphonic calls have a directional high-frequency component. The field has treated this as a…

  • Where Meaning Lives

    The duality of patterning finding tells us something about whale language. But it’s also telling us…

  • The Year We Listen Back

    In 2024, researchers at Project CETI identified something in sperm whale codas that linguists had believed…