The idea of an animal that can count or do math might sound like something out of a viral news story or TikTok video. But a sense of quantity, sometimes called "numerosity," appears across a ...

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Breaking down your fear of wild animals is all about examining the sum of their parts — or just looking at them as furry piles of triangles and rectangles. The geometric wonders are by Kerby Rosanes, ...

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Researchers at the University of Tubingen have demonstrated that carrion crows can detect geometric regularity in shapes and can distinguish between different geometric forms, opening up a new window ...