The Creative Lives of Animals
Title | The Creative Lives of Animals PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Gigliotti |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2022-11-22 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1479815446 |
"The Creative Lives of Animals offers readers intimate glimpses of how animals from elephants to alligators to ants apply the creative process in their lives, requiring a redefinition of creativity that includes animals as essential contributors to biodiversity"--
The Secret Lives of Animals
Title | The Secret Lives of Animals PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Squire |
Publisher | Children's Press(CT) |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780516251899 |
Describes four animals that are currently being investigated by researchers--ocean sunfish, great white sharks, mandrills, and fossas--some of which are endangered.
The Creative Lives of Animals
Title | The Creative Lives of Animals PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Gigliotti |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2022-11-22 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1479815462 |
Winner of the 2023 Nautilus Book Award in the category of Animals & Nature The surprising, fascinating, and remarkable ways that animals use creativity to thrive in their habitats 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.
The Creative Life
Title | The Creative Life PDF eBook |
Author | Ludwig Lewisohn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | Criticism |
ISBN |
Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity
Title | Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Fletcher |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2016-11-21 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1107159083 |
This book examines how the biographical traditions of ancient poets and artists parallel the creative processes of biographers themselves, both within antiquity and beyond. Each chapter explores a range of biographical material that highlights the complexity of how readers and viewers imagine the lives of ancient creator-figures.
Living the Creative Life
Title | Living the Creative Life PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Herbert Appel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Conduct of life |
ISBN |
If a Lion Could Talk
Title | If a Lion Could Talk PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Budiansky |
Publisher | Free Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015-11-21 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9781501142741 |
How many of us have caught ourselves gazing into the eyes of a pet, wondering what thoughts lie behind those eyes? Or fallen into an argument over which is smarter, the dog or the cat? Scientists have conducted elaborate experiments trying to ascertain whether animals from chimps to pigeons can communicate, count, reason, or even lie. So does science tell us what we assume -- that animals are pretty much like us, only not as smart? Simply, no. Now, in this superb book, Stephen Budiansky poses the fundamental question: "What is intelligence?" His answer takes us on the ultimate wildlife adventure to animal consciousness. Budiansky begins by exposing our tendency to see ourselves in animals. Our anthropomorphism allows us to perceive intelligence only in behavior that mimics our own. This prejudice, he argues, betrays a lack of imagination. Each species is so specialized that most of their abilities are simply not comparable. At the mercy of our anthropomorphic tendencies, we continue to puzzle over pointless issues like whether a wing or an arm is better, or whether night vision is better than day vision, rather than discovering the real world of a winged nighthawk, a thoroughbred horse, or an African lion. Budiansky investigates the sometimes bizarre research behind animal intelligence experiments: from horses who can count or ace history quizzes, and primates who seem fluent in sign language, to rats who seem to have become self-aware, he reveals that often these animals are responding to our tiny unconscious cues. And, while critically discussing scientists' interpretations of animal intelligence, he is able to lay out their discoveries in terms of what we know about ourselves. For instance, by putting you in the minds of dogs or bees who travel by dead reckoning, he demonstrates that this is also how you find your way down a familiar street with almost no conscious awareness of your navigation system. Modern cognitive science and the new science of evolutionary ecology are beginning to show that thinking in animals is tremendously complex and wonderful in its variety. A pigeon's ability to find its way home from almost anywhere has little to do with comparative intelligence; rather it is due to the pigeon's very different perception of the world. That's why, as Wittgenstein said, "If a lion could talk, we would not understand him." In this fascinating book, Budiansky frees us from the shackles of our ideas about the natural world, and opens a window to the astounding worlds of the animals that surround us.