Animal cognition Animal cognition Animal cognition describes the mental capacities of non-human animals and the study of those capacities. The field developed from comparative psychology, including the study of animal conditioning and learning. It has also been strongly influenced by research in ethology, behavioral ecology, and evolutionary psychology, and hence 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 animal cognition in mammals (especially primates, cetaceans, elephants, dogs, cats, pigs, horses, cattle, raccoons and rodents), birds (including parrots, fowl, corvids and pigeons), reptiles (lizards and snakes),
British Society of Animal Science the society was renamed, and the journal retitled to "Animal Science". A partnership with Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) and European Federation for Animal Science publish the journal "Animal: An International Journal of Animal Bioscience". The journal is a merge of three journals including the BSAS journal "Animal Science", which was published six times a year. The society presents the Sir John Hammond Award at the annual conference. Recipients include: British Society of Animal Science British Society of Animal Science (BSAS) is a learned society in the field of animal science, established in 1944 as the British Society