Just as AI and other cutting-edge tools create unprecedented opportunities for understanding and protecting nonhuman animals, they also pose serious risks of further manipulation and exploitation.

In the early 20th century, scientists maintained that one of the fundamental differences between animals and humans is that we use tools and they don’t. This was challenged and overset in 1960 when ...

A cow in Austria has done what no cattle before her is known to have done: used tools. Meet Veronika. She’s the first bovine researcher’s have discovered who picks up objects and uses them to scratch ...