{"id":250,"date":"2020-08-20T06:46:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T06:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolgigliotti.com\/dir\/home\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T04:22:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T04:22:37","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carolgigliotti.com\/dir\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"inherit-container-width wp-block-group alignfull has-ast-global-color-5-background-color has-background is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"inherit-container-width wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-vertically-aligned-center is-stacked-on-mobile animated fadeIn delay-200ms slower\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;grid-template-columns:auto 45%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<div class=\"inherit-container-width wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carolgigliotti.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/nprlogo_rgb_whiteborder_-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">AUTHOR INTERVIEWS heard on Morning Edition with A. Martinez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/carolgigliotti.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221124_me_are_animals_creative_carol_gigliottis_new_book_shows_you_just_how_creative_they_are-1.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Are animals creative? Carol Gigliotti&#8217;s new book shows you just how creative they are. November 24, 20224:55 AM ET <br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-text-align-center has-text-color has-large-font-size\" style=\"color:#748e99;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-style:normal;font-weight:100\">The Creative Lives of Animals<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Winner of the 2023 Nautilus Gold Book Award in Animals and Nature<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">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\u2019 creative choices affect their social, cultural, and environmental worlds.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><em>The Creative Lives of Animals<\/em>&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-small-font-size\">Cover Photo @ Melissa Groo<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/carolgigliotti.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Creative-Lives-of-Animals-Cover-_SCALED_-AWARD-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1205 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carolgigliotti.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Creative-Lives-of-Animals-Cover-_SCALED_-AWARD-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/carolgigliotti.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Creative-Lives-of-Animals-Cover-_SCALED_-AWARD-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carolgigliotti.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Creative-Lives-of-Animals-Cover-_SCALED_-AWARD-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carolgigliotti.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Creative-Lives-of-Animals-Cover-_SCALED_-AWARD-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carolgigliotti.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Creative-Lives-of-Animals-Cover-_SCALED_-AWARD-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/carolgigliotti.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Creative-Lives-of-Animals-Cover-_SCALED_-AWARD.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-advanced-heading uagb-block-0713a244\"><h3 class=\"uagb-heading-text\"><br>PRAISE<\/h3><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"inherit-container-width wp-block-group alignfull has-ast-global-color-5-background-color has-background is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-testimonial uagb-slick-carousel uagb-tm__arrow-outside uagb-block-601f0807\"><div class=\"is-carousel uagb-tm__columns-1 uagb-tm__items\"><div class=\"uagb-testimonial__wrap  uagb-tm__imgicon-style-circle uagb-tm__image-position-bottom uagb-tm__bg-type-none \"><div class=\"uagb-tm__content\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__text-wrap\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__desc\">&#8220;Carol Gigliotti\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Creative Lives of Animals<\/em>\u00a0deconstructs our conceit that humans alone are capable of emotion, creativity and synthetic thinking. The author joyfully perforates the rigid tenets of behavioral science with vivid stories from the fresh edge of research. It is good to live in a time when human self-reference is finally yielding to the undeniable evidence of magnificent animal minds.&#8221; &#8212; Julie Zickefoose \u2015\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><br><br><br><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__meta-inner\"><div class=\"uagb-testimonial-details\"><span class=\"uagb-tm__author-name\">Marc Bekoff, author of <em>The Emotional Lives of Animals<\/em> and <em>A Dog&#8217;s World<\/em> with Jessica Pierce. <\/span><span class=\"uagb-tm__company\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"uagb-testimonial__wrap  uagb-tm__imgicon-style-circle uagb-tm__image-position-bottom uagb-tm__bg-type-none \"><div class=\"uagb-tm__content\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__text-wrap\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__desc\">&#8220;<em>The Creative Lives of Animals<\/em>\u00a0makes its strongest case when advocating a revision of how to think about, and act towards, animals. Ms. Gigliotti points out that humans are only one of millions of species on Earth. She suggests a retreat from anthropocentrism in favor of recognition that animals are individuals with complicated, powerful, creative lives of their own.&#8221; \u2015\u00a0<em>The Economist<\/em><br><br><br><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__meta-inner\"><div class=\"uagb-testimonial-details\"><span class=\"uagb-tm__author-name\">John Doe<\/span><span class=\"uagb-tm__company\">Company Name<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"uagb-testimonial__wrap  uagb-tm__imgicon-style-circle uagb-tm__image-position-bottom uagb-tm__bg-type-none \"><div class=\"uagb-tm__content\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__text-wrap\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__desc\">&#8220;An illuminating account of creativity in the wild. Gigliotti makes a solid case that humans have a lot to learn about the creatures that they share the planet with, and that much of what scientists previously thought was uniquely human isn\u2019t. Fans of Jane Goodall and Frans de Waal will be pleased.&#8221; \u2015\u00a0<em>Publishers Weekly (starred)<\/em><br><br><br><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__meta-inner\"><div class=\"uagb-testimonial-details\"><span class=\"uagb-tm__author-name\">John Doe<\/span><span class=\"uagb-tm__company\">Company Name<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"uagb-testimonial__wrap  uagb-tm__imgicon-style-circle uagb-tm__image-position-bottom uagb-tm__bg-type-none \"><div class=\"uagb-tm__content\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__text-wrap\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__desc\">&#8220;Gigliotti builds the case that animals of all types\u2015from elephants to ants\u2015are intelligent, albeit in ways that may manifest differently than humans, and they can communicate nuance, allowing individual behavioral innovation to spread through a community. Ultimately, her agenda is to seek greater empathy, value, and protection for animals by including them into a global creative force. This broad survey of creative animal behavior will appeal to artists of all types and to animal lovers.&#8221; \u2015\u00a0<em>Library Journal<\/em><br><br><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__meta-inner\"><div class=\"uagb-testimonial-details\"><span class=\"uagb-tm__author-name\">John Doe<\/span><span class=\"uagb-tm__company\">Company Name<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"uagb-testimonial__wrap  uagb-tm__imgicon-style-circle uagb-tm__image-position-bottom uagb-tm__bg-type-none \"><div class=\"uagb-tm__content\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__text-wrap\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__desc\">&#8220;If you\u2019ve ever purchased one of the many different types of \u2018squirrel proof\u2019 bird feeders, you can attest to the resourcefulness of animals. In this intriguing investigation of animal ingenuity, Gigliotti contemplates the novelty and meaning of creativity along with some essential elements, such as curiosity, flexibility, and persistence.&#8221; \u2015\u00a0<em>Booklist<\/em><br><br><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__meta-inner\"><div class=\"uagb-testimonial-details\"><span class=\"uagb-tm__author-name\">John Doe<\/span><span class=\"uagb-tm__company\">Company Name<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"uagb-testimonial__wrap  uagb-tm__imgicon-style-circle uagb-tm__image-position-bottom uagb-tm__bg-type-none \"><div class=\"uagb-tm__content\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__text-wrap\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__desc\">&#8220;From playfully bowing puppies to seductively singing alligators, Carol Gigliotti combines examples from interviews with scientists and excerpts of previously published books in this delightful index of animal inventiveness.&#8221; &#8212; Fionna M. D. Samuels \u2015\u00a0<em>Scientific American<\/em><br><br><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__meta-inner\"><div class=\"uagb-testimonial-details\"><span class=\"uagb-tm__author-name\">John Doe<\/span><span class=\"uagb-tm__company\">Company Name<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"uagb-testimonial__wrap  uagb-tm__imgicon-style-circle uagb-tm__image-position-bottom uagb-tm__bg-type-none \"><div class=\"uagb-tm__content\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__text-wrap\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__desc\"><br>&#8220;<em>The Creative Lives<\/em>\u00a0of Animals is a game-changer. Carol Gigliotti shows how important creativity \u2013improvisation and invention\u2013is in a wide variety of contexts including expressing different emotions, playing, socially communicating with others, courting, mating, and raising children, and designing and engineering animals&#8217; homes. Easy-to-read and science-based,\u00a0<em>The Creative Lives of Animals<\/em>\u00a0will be of interest to a broad audience including researchers and non-researchers alike, and surely will change the ways in which humans view and treat the fascinating animals with whom we share our magnificent planet.&#8221; \u2015\u00a0<em>Marc Bekoff, author of\u00a0Canine Confidential: Why Dogs Do What They Do<\/em><br><br><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__meta-inner\"><div class=\"uagb-testimonial-details\"><span class=\"uagb-tm__author-name\">John Doe<\/span><span class=\"uagb-tm__company\">Company Name<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"uagb-testimonial__wrap  uagb-tm__imgicon-style-circle uagb-tm__image-position-bottom uagb-tm__bg-type-none \"><div class=\"uagb-tm__content\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__text-wrap\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__desc\"><br>&#8220;Gigliotti&#8217;s palpable love of the animal world is expressed in graceful and affecting prose\u2026 the author deserves praise for creating this beautiful prose paean to the other animals who inhabit our shared world.&#8221; &#8212; D. Altschiller, Boston University \u2015\u00a0<em>CHOICE<\/em><br><br><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__meta-inner\"><div class=\"uagb-testimonial-details\"><span class=\"uagb-tm__author-name\">John Doe<\/span><span class=\"uagb-tm__company\">Company Name<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"uagb-testimonial__wrap  uagb-tm__imgicon-style-circle uagb-tm__image-position-bottom uagb-tm__bg-type-none \"><div class=\"uagb-tm__content\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__text-wrap\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__desc\">&#8220;Finely written. Gigliotti, tuned into nature and the lives of animals, offers a good model for the rest of us to follow, helping us see the world not from myopic humanism but from the perspective of animals. Implicitly, Gigliotti asks everyone and not just scientists to learn about the lives of animals in our shared ecosphere to which we are all tied with an equal fate.&#8221; &#8212; Gregory F. Tague \u2015\u00a0<em>Leonardo Reviews<\/em><br><br><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__meta-inner\"><div class=\"uagb-testimonial-details\"><span class=\"uagb-tm__author-name\">John Doe<\/span><span class=\"uagb-tm__company\">Company Name<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"uagb-testimonial__wrap  uagb-tm__imgicon-style-circle uagb-tm__image-position-bottom uagb-tm__bg-type-none \"><div class=\"uagb-tm__content\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__text-wrap\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__desc\">In her marvelous book, Gigliotti reveals the astonishing depth and genius of animal creativity, demolishing a common view of animals as little more than robots mindlessly enacting the scripts given to them by Nature. Drawing on a century of ethological findings, the author shows how animals bring deep intelligence, emotions, and even an aesthetic sensibility to bear on their daily challenges. Animals are shown to be not mere \u2018types,\u2019 but creative individuals and artists of their own lives. This is the rare work that opens our eyes to worlds of experience and being that would otherwise remain hidden from us.&#8221; \u2015\u00a0<em>John Sanbonmatsu, author of\u00a0Critical Theory and Animal Liberation<\/em><br><br><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__meta-inner\"><div class=\"uagb-testimonial-details\"><span class=\"uagb-tm__author-name\">John Doe<\/span><span class=\"uagb-tm__company\">Company Name<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"uagb-testimonial__wrap  uagb-tm__imgicon-style-circle uagb-tm__image-position-bottom uagb-tm__bg-type-none \"><div class=\"uagb-tm__content\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__text-wrap\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__desc\">&#8220;<em>The Creative Lives of Animals<\/em>\u00a0is smart, original, and well-written. Gigliotti topples one of the last remaining conceits about what distinguishes humans from nonhuman animals: the aptitude for creative expression and aesthetic appreciation.\u00a0<em>The Creative Lives of Animals<\/em>\u00a0is masterfully researched, and will surely make vital contributions to debates not only in animal studies but also in the philosophy of mind and even performance studies. At the same time, the writing sparkles, and the book overflows with stories so accessible and well-crafted that the book deserves wide readership. This is a work that has the potential to fundamentally change the way we think about animals&#8211;and ourselves.&#8221; \u2015\u00a0<em>Colin Jerolmack, author of\u00a0The Global Pigeon<\/em><br><br><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__meta-inner\"><div class=\"uagb-testimonial-details\"><span class=\"uagb-tm__author-name\">John Doe<\/span><span class=\"uagb-tm__company\">Company Name<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"uagb-testimonial__wrap  uagb-tm__imgicon-style-circle uagb-tm__image-position-bottom uagb-tm__bg-type-none \"><div class=\"uagb-tm__content\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__text-wrap\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__desc\">&#8220;If you doubt that other beings can create, prepare to be convinced otherwise. With a delightful combination of science and anecdote, Gigliotti explores a neglected facet of the inner lives of our fellow denizens of planet Earth. The result is a highly readable and accessible foray into the creative lives of animals.&#8221; &#8212; Jonathan Balcombe, <em>Author of What a Fish Knows<\/em><br><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__meta-inner\"><div class=\"uagb-testimonial-details\"><span class=\"uagb-tm__author-name\">John Doe<\/span><span class=\"uagb-tm__company\">Company Name<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"uagb-testimonial__wrap  uagb-tm__imgicon-style-circle uagb-tm__image-position-bottom uagb-tm__bg-type-none \"><div class=\"uagb-tm__content\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__text-wrap\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__desc\">&#8220;So many people are reluctant to admit that the species we share this planet with are also creative. Perhaps this book will change their minds. Eye-opening and fascinating.&#8221; &#8212; John Yunker \u2015\u00a0<em>EcoLit Books<\/em><br><br><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__meta-inner\"><div class=\"uagb-testimonial-details\"><span class=\"uagb-tm__author-name\">John Doe<\/span><span class=\"uagb-tm__company\">Company Name<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"uagb-testimonial__wrap  uagb-tm__imgicon-style-circle uagb-tm__image-position-bottom uagb-tm__bg-type-none \"><div class=\"uagb-tm__content\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__text-wrap\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__desc\">&#8220;This broad survey of creative animal behaviour makes a compelling case that animals of all types (from insects to mammals) are capable of behavioural innovation and provides artists insight into their own creativity.&#8221; &#8212; Nathalie Atkinson \u2015\u00a0<em>The Globe and Mail<\/em><br><br><br><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__meta-inner\"><div class=\"uagb-testimonial-details\"><span class=\"uagb-tm__author-name\">John Doe<\/span><span class=\"uagb-tm__company\">Company Name<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"uagb-testimonial__wrap  uagb-tm__imgicon-style-circle uagb-tm__image-position-bottom uagb-tm__bg-type-none \"><div class=\"uagb-tm__content\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__text-wrap\"><div class=\"uagb-tm__desc\">&#8220;Many songbirds are born without the ability to sing. So should those that learn \u2015 and other animals \u2015 be called creative? Carol Gigliotti interviews scientists who think they should be, and agrees with them. An animal activist, author and artist who has taught design and dynamic media, she defines creativity as a &#8216;dynamic process&#8217; in which individuals generate &#8216;novel and meaningful behavior&#8217; that might affect others at cultural, species and evolutionary levels.&#8221; &#8212; Andrew Robinson \u2015\u00a0<em>Nature<\/em><br><br><br><\/div><div class=\"uagb-tm__meta-inner\"><div class=\"uagb-testimonial-details\"><span class=\"uagb-tm__author-name\">John Doe<\/span><span class=\"uagb-tm__company\">Company Name<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"inherit-container-width wp-block-group alignfull has-ast-global-color-4-background-color has-background is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 40%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carolgigliotti.com\/dir\/#about\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"252\">About<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/carolgigliotti.com\/dir\/#About the author\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"250\"> the author<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Carol Gigliotti<\/strong>&nbsp;is an author, artist, animal activist, and scholar whose work focuses on the reality of animals&#8217; lives as important contributors to the biodiversity of this planet. She is Professor Emerita of Design and Dynamic Media and Critical and Cultural Studies at the Emily Carr University of Design, Vancouver, BC. CANADA.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-ast-global-color-1-color has-css-opacity has-ast-global-color-1-background-color has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Carol Gigliotti is an author, artist, and scholar whose work focuses on the reality of animals\u2019 lives as important contributors to the biodiversity of this planet. She is Professor Emerita of Design and Dynamic Media and Critical and Cultural Studies at the Emily Carr University of Design, Vancouver, BC. Canada. Her book, <strong>The Creative Lives of Animals,<\/strong> (NYU Press, 2022) challenges the current assumptions of creativity, offering a more comprehensive understanding through recognizing animal creativity, cognition, consciousness, and agency. The book was a <em>Nautilis Gold Award <\/em>Winner in the Animal and Nature Category in 2023. She is the editor of the book, <strong>Leonardo\u2019s Choice: Genetic Technologies and Animals<\/strong> (Springer, 2009). Her writing has appeared in <em>The Scientist, Antennae, Leonardo, Humanimalia<\/em> and the <em>Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies<\/em> and praised in the WSJ, The Economist, Scientific American, Nature, the Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly and EcoLit Books, among other publications. 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