Creativity in Kids and Dolphins

Bottlenose dolphin. Beyond My Ken/Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Researchers tested a non-verbal creativity task in preschoolers and bottlenose dolphins in which the subjects were positively reinforced when they performed a new (i.e., non-repeated) behavior in response to a hand gesture. It turns out that dolphins and children were more similar than different in demonstrating creativity.

Read the whole story at my Animal Minds blog: Measuring Creativity in Kids and Dolphins.