for more highly olfactory animals, however, it is critical for survival—escaping danger, hunting for food and finding a mate. To gain useful information from the barrage of molecules that reach ...

As in all vertebrates, the human olfactory system has very direct connections to the emotion and navigation centers in the brain. Behavioural observations across animal species have provided ...

The rate of development of poikilothermic animals, such as insects, fish, and reptiles, is determined by environmental ...

Findings indicate that non-human animals can categorize complex olfactory stimuli without linguistic or human-specific cognitive abilities. In the study, "Rats Can Distinguish (and Generalize ...

A study from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz found that fruit flies raised at lower temperatures develop more neural ...