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Practically every animal that scientists have studied—insects and cephalopods, amphibians and reptiles, birds and mammals—can distinguish between different numbers of objects in a set or sounds in a ...

Humans are quite advanced when it comes to using numerical numbers. We can count in our heads and out loud: 1, 2, 3, 4. But ...