The idea of an animal that can count or do math might sound like something out of a viral news story or TikTok video. But a sense of quantity, sometimes called "numerosity," appears across a ...

An understanding of numbers is often viewed as a distinctly human faculty—a hallmark of our intelligence that, along with language, sets us apart from all other animals. Practically every animal that ...

Though 2018 has come and gone, it isn't too late to relish some interesting findings about animals and math from last year. Here are some highlights. "Imagine you're in a huge dark house and a ...

Savvy for judging quantities is turning up across the animal kingdom — even among spiders and other invertebrates, Susan Milius reported in “Animal math” (SN: 12/10/16, p. 22). Some astute readers ...

For those who struggled with math, this might not be intuitive, but animals in general are quite good at it. Your math teacher would be happy to hear that. Indeed, what we call "numerical competence" ...

It is often thought that humans are different from other animals in some fundamental way that makes us unique, or even more advanced than other species. These claims of human superiority are sometimes ...

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