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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From pigs to elephants, some animals have created paintings that sell for thousands, captivating collectors and conservationists alike. These works often begin as enrichment activities but evolve into ...

Raising money for rescued cats, dogs, and other homeless animals is serious business — and it requires a bit of creativity. Sure, you could just ask for donations. Or, you could put on a doggy fashion ...

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 ...

When species disappear, more than their genomes are lost. The potential for their creative innovation to benefit ecosystems vanishes as well. To some people—road engineers, for instance—beavers and ...