Joanne Lefson, who has studied the mindset behind animal art, offers a deep dive into how and why animals paint and what their creative and aesthetic senses might look like.

Key points. Some animals enjoy painting and drawing and do it spontaneously with no reward. Creating art can be visually contagious among animals of different species, such as a pig and a sheep.

A HK artist's stall at an illustration art fair has closed after police officers reportedly received complaints, photographed the displayed drawings, and passed them to nat. sec police.

Japan ’s Democratic Party for the People head Yuichiro Tamaki has drawn the ire of social media users after he referred to the government’s rice stockpiles as “animal feed in a year”.