(WJAR) — Roger Williams Park Zoo animals were given the gift of enrichment this holiday season. Rhode Island School of Design's Industrial Design students created enrichment objects for some animals.

It’s a universal fact that as any 3D object, from a Platonic sphere to a cell to an elephant, grows outward in all directions, its total surface area will increase more slowly than the space it ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Many dog owners believe their pets understand and respond not only to commands such as “sit” and “stay,” but also to words referring to their favorite objects. “Bring me your ...

Source: Grzegorz Eliasiewicz, used with permission. Humans use words to refer to objects in the environment. We understand that certain words “stand for” certain objects, and this understanding is ...

The fictitious storybook character Dr. Doolittle was known for talking with animals. Caroline DeLong, an assistant professor of psychology at Rochester Institute of Technology, is a real-life ...