In the animated movie Up, a boisterous dog wears an electronic collar that translates his doggy thoughts into English words. ...

In 2023, researchers did something that sounds like it belongs in a Pixar movie: they decoded a humpback whale’s “hello” and ...

Scientists are getting closer to understanding animals, but translation isn't here yet.

AI is helping decode animal communication-but we're not talking to them just yet.

Increasingly, however, talking with the animals is becoming less of a fantasy. This doesn’t just invite some fantastic conversations, but recontexualizes the rights we allot to non-human creatures.

Dario Russo takes talking animals very seriously. That’s why in The Fox, Russo’s first feature film, the woodland creatures’ ...

Annie Peters, president and CEO of Pet Partners—a Bellevue, Wash.-based national therapy animal organization focusing on improving human health and well-being through the human-animal bond—traces her ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — In a St. Petersburg house, there is a living room filled with play toys belonging to a precocious preschooler, named Apollo. The four-year-old African Grey parrot is a Guinness ...