Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 2024 study found that cats learn to associate images with words faster than human babies. “My cat always watches my phone as I ...

Human reading looks so ordinary that it is easy to treat it as the default way brains extract meaning from marks. Yet when I look at what animals can do with symbols, numbers, and sounds, the picture ...

Humane Society volunteer Karen Long holds Butters while listening to Ellie Davinsizer at the Bellwood-Antis Public Library Paws 2 Read event in March 2025. Courtesy photo With all ears, animals are ...