Are Animals Creative? by Sean Cole (2006)

Spoiler alert: “Yes, yes they are. That was easy.”  This piece is such a buffet for the senses.  It evokes cartoonish images of animals painting and playing music, delivers that music to your ears (including a whole minute of it at the end that could be a Brian Eno track or something you’d hear at H0l0), and seasons it with Cole’s signature wit and  insight.  You can hear the question- are animals creative? - but the answer occupies the space between the ears.  It’s a stellar example of the curious journalism that has driven Cole’s work.