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"Most of us view animals through a very narrow lens, seeing only bits and pieces of beings that seem mostly peripheral to our lives. However, whether animals are building a shelter, seducing a mate, or inventing a new game, animals' creative choices affect their social, cultural, and environmental worlds. The Creative Lives of Animals offers readers intimate glimpses of creativity in the lives of animals, from elephants to alligators to ants. Drawing on a growing body of scientific research, Carol Gigliotti unpacks examples of creativity demonstrated by animals through the lens of the creative process, an important component of creative behavior, and offers new thinking on animal intelligence, emotion, and self-awareness. With examples of the elaborate dams built by beavers or the lavishly decorated bowers of bowerbirds, Gigliotti provides a new perspective on animals as agents in their own lives, as valuable contributors to their world and ours, and as guides in understanding how creativity may contribute to conserving the natural world. Presenting a powerful argument for the importance of recognizing animals as individuals and as creators of a healthy, biodiverse world, this book offers insights into both the established and emerging questions about the creativity of animals."--

Animal behavior --- Animal behavior. --- Nature conservation. --- Annie Potts. --- Big C. --- Bruce Bagemihl. --- Con Slobodchikov. --- Darwin. --- Don Kroodsma. --- Edward Wasserman. --- Francoise Wemelsfelder. --- Gordon Burghardt. --- Great Bear Rainforest. --- Hal Whitehead. --- Hollis Taylor. --- Karen Davis. --- Little c. --- Luke Rendell. --- Marc Bekoff. --- Mark Moffett. --- Mike Hansell. --- Richard O. Prum. --- alarm calls. --- animal architecture. --- animal communities. --- animal creativity. --- animal cultural mores. --- animal culture. --- animal emotion. --- animal intelligence. --- animal personality. --- animal personhood. --- animal tool use. --- animals. --- anthropomorphism. --- ants. --- beauty. --- beavers. --- bee democracy. --- biodiversity. --- biological exuberance. --- biology. --- bird nests. --- birdsong. --- caddisflies. --- chickens. --- conservation. --- creative behaviour. --- creative process. --- creativity. --- cultural diffusion. --- desire. --- dogs. --- elephants. --- empathy. --- ethology. --- evolutionary biology. --- hydro-engineering. --- individual choice. --- infrasonic communcation. --- keas. --- learning. --- lizards. --- memory. --- morality. --- multi-species creativity. --- multispecies creativity. --- neuroscience. --- pigeons. --- pigs. --- play. --- prairie dogs. --- reptile emotion. --- sexual selection. --- turtles. --- universal creativity. --- vibrational communication. --- whales. --- wolves.