When Deirdre Yeater, Ph.D., a psychologist at Sacred Heart University who studies cognitive development in marine mammals, set out to study creativity, she found she had a colleague with parallel ...

The great thing about studying animal behaviour is that most people have an intuitive idea about what you’re talking about. My last blog post was on animal play—how it is studied scientifically, and ...

When you think of undomesticated animals, what words come to mind? Maybe it's wild or even vicious. For author Carol Gigliotti, the word is creative. In her book, "The Creative Lives Of Animals," she ...

In The Creative Lives of Animals (New York Univ., Nov.), scholar Gigliotti posits that creativity isn’t a trait unique to humans. How did you come to write this book? I have always been an animal ...

In 1960 Jane Goodall, a British primatologist, observed chimpanzees in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. At that point, it was thought only humans had the capacity to create and use tools, but the ...

IT SMELLED That’s one part of Karla Black’s cosmetics-and-other-powders installation that you can’t understand from this photograph, a partial view of a multi-roomed installation at the Venice ...

To some people—road engineers, for instance—beavers and their dams may seem like the ultimate foe of human progress. But to the scientists who study them, beavers exemplify animal creativity. In a ...

Join us as we blend creativity with compassion! In this video, we explore how crafting can make a difference in the lives of animals in need. Discover the joy of creating meaningful projects that ...