Pigcasso the painting pig, Julie the chimp with a fondness for grass bling and elephants painting flowers. Acts of creativity ...

From red pandas to crows, zoo animals across the U.S. are painting works of art as part of enrichment programs.

Without being able to get into the heads of animals, it’s hard to say for sure. But instances of pig painters, whale crooners ...

Akron Zoo and ArtsinStark are collaborating on an unusual art exhibition opening April 8 in Canton. Even a jaguar is among ...

A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in ...

[Photo: doug/Flickr] Of course, figuring out whether something is a work of art requires answering some tricky philosophical questions. Are animals even capable of creating art? And how can we ...

The medieval preoccupation with animals comes down to how people lived during this period, says Julia Perratore, associate curator in the Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters at the ...

Of course, figuring out whether something is a work of art requires answering some tricky philosophical questions. Are animals even capable of creating art? And how can we tell whether something ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The males gather twigs and place them upright, in two bundles, with a gap in the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Shawn Simpson, University of Pittsburgh (THE CONVERSATION) In the forests of ...