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 ...

Some use their intelligence, self-awareness, and flexibility, three essentials for creativity, to build homes. Beavers engineer their elaborate dams and canals by controlling and creating water flow ...

Source: NYU Press with permission. When I first read the manuscript for Carol Gigliotti's eye-opening The Creative Lives of Animals, I took pages and pages of notes. 1 Now that I've read it once again ...

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 ...

Source: The Story of Dr. Doolittle by Hugh Lofting/Wikimedia, Public domain I recently read a fascinating book by Dr. Michael Gilmour called Creative Compassion, Literature and Animal Welfare and was ...

Kevin N Laland receives funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Natural Environment Research Council, the John Templeton Foundation, and the European Research ...

At a monthly meeting last year, Eric Sandgren, the director of animal resources at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, mentioned that some sheep being used to study decompression sickness, what ...