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1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (57+ words) In the dim, crowded interior of a commercial turkey barn, one bird looks much like another. Thousands of large, white-feathered animals mill about under fixed overhead cameras, and to the human eye—and, crucially, to most computer vision systems—they…...

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3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (69+ words) In a finding that is already circulating rapidly among dog lovers and cognitive scientists alike, researchers in Budapest have demonstrated that domestic dogs possess a distinct perceptual bias toward the voices of their own kind. The study, published as an…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (532+ words) For dolphins living along Florida’s Atlantic coast, the ocean is far more than a physical landscape. It is an acoustic environment shaped by whistles, echolocation clicks, fish calls, waves, currents and the increasingly persistent noise of ships....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (888+ words) Every day, veterinarians, shelter managers, and assistance dog trainers face decisions that can change the course of an animal’s life: Should this dog undergo invasive surgery? Can this animal cope with long-term kenneling? Is it time to consider euthanasia? A…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (830+ words) The machines that scientists use to probe the minds of animals were almost never built for animals at all. Touchscreens, eye-trackers, joysticks, and button panels—every one of these tools was originally engineered around human anatomy, human motivation, and human…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (770+ words) A new study of a connectome-constrained model of the fruit fly visual system has uncovered a striking limit to neural scale stability: a frozen visual representation can preserve motion direction across a broad range of image sizes, but its ability…...