Animal cognition encompasses the mental capacities of non-human animals including insect cognition. The study of animal conditioning and learning used in this field was developed from comparative psychology. It has also been strongly influenced by research in ethology, behavioral ecology, and evolutionary psychology; the alternative name cognitive ethology is sometimes used. Many behaviors associated with the term animal intelligence are also subsumed within animal cognition.

Researchers have examined animals that placed in the cognition, in mammals instead of humans; (included primates, cetaceans, elephants, bears, dogs, cats, pigs, horses, cows, rabbits, raccoons, and rodents), birds (including parrots, fowl, corvids, and pigeons), reptiles (lizards, snakes, and turtles), fish and invertebrates (including cephalopods, spiders, and insects).

 

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