In the forests of eastern Australia, satin bowerbirds create structures known as “bowers.” The males gather twigs and place ...

Waves, shifting currents, and passing animals can all disrupt the ... The post Pufferfish Mandalas: How One Fish Builds Geometric Art in the Sand appeared first on discoverwildscience.

Ornithologist Richard Prum suggests that beauty could be a criterion for evaluating animal art: the beauty of the ... veritable underwater mandalas, designed to seduce a female.

There was more flaying than I expected, though not necessarily more than I wanted, at “Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet ... dead to be eaten by wild animals.

Circular forms in art are often referred to as mandalas, the Sanskrit word for "sacred circle." For thousands of years, the creation of circular, often geometric designs has been part of spiritual ...