The Creative Lives of Animals (eBook)

Carol Gigliotti (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-1546-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Winner of the 2023 Nautilus Book Award in the category of Animals & NatureThe surprising, fascinating, and remarkable ways that animals use creativity to thrive in their habitatsMost 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.11.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Animals in Context
• Reihe/Serie: Animals in Context
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Schlagworte: alarm calls • animal architecture • animal communities • animal creativity • animal cultural mores • animal culture • animal emotion • animal intelligence • Animal Personality • animal personhood • animals • animal tool use • Annie Potts • Anthropomorphism • ants • Beauty • beavers • bee democracy • Big C • biodiversity • biological exuberance • Biology • bird nests • Birdsong • book about animals • books about animals • Bruce Bagemihl • caddisflies • Chickens • conservation • Con Slobodchikov • creative behaviour • creative process • Creativity • Cultural Diffusion • cute animals • Darwin • Desire • Dogs • Don Kroodsma • Edward Wasserman • Elephants • Empathy • Ethology • evolutionary biology • Francoise Wemelsfelder • fun books about animals • Gift Book • gifts for animal lovers • gifts for pet owners • Gordon Burghardt • Great Bear Rainforest • Hal Whitehead • Hollis Taylor • hydro-engineering • individual choice • infrasonic communcation • Karen Davis • Keas • learning • Little c • lizards • Luke Rendell • Marc Bekoff • Mark Moffett • Memory • Mike Hansell • Morality • multi-species creativity • multispecies creativity • Neuroscience • pigeons • Pigs • Play • prairie dogs • reptile emotion • Richard O. Prum • Sexual Selection • Turtles • universal creativity • Vibrational communication • Whales • Wolves
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-1546-2 / 1479815462
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-1546-3 / 9781479815463