ABSTRACT

For many years animal trainers, pet owners and naturalists have reported various kinds of perceptiveness in animals that suggest the existence of animal psi. Surprisingly little research has been done on these phenomena. Biologists have been inhibited by the taboo against 'the paranormal', and psychical researchers and parapsychologists have with few exceptions confined their attention to human beings. At one time there was more interest in animal psi among parapsychologists but a prominent case of possible fraud concerning the work of Levy seems to have left the field under a bit of a cloud. The main line of research in this area currently is work with pets and pet owners. Most research on animal navigation has been carried out with homing pigeons, and this research over many decades has served only to deepen the problem of understanding their direction-finding ability. Most recent research on human psychokinesis has involved the use of random event generators.