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),
International Society for Animal Rights International Society for Animal Rights International Society for Animal Rights (ISAR) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation chartered under the laws of the District of Columbia, United States of America, whose sole mission is to use education and law to advance animal rights. Years ago, Harvard University's Office of Government and Community Affairs sponsored an in-depth study of the animal rights movement, examining its tactics, strategies, and long-term goals. Even those many years ago Harvard understood that there was a conceptual dichotomy in the movement, noting in its Report that "philosophically, animal rights/welfare groups can be classified as abolitionists or regulationists.