Crack your toughest problems
with the genius of Natural Selection.

 

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Testimonials

The Authors

 

The new Animal Crackers Manual is now available.

The manual guides you through the complete, 14-step Natural Selection process. At the appropriate point, it will help you use the 2010 Online Tool.

Designed to work with the 2010 Online Tool
• New Animal Adaptations continuously added online
• Features a real-life, solution example at each step

• Includes Extinction, Mutation and Selection worksheets
• Contains Survival and Extinction prompts
• Spiral bound,
44-pages, 8.5 x 11 in.

• $29.00

Click here to order now.

Use the Animal Crackers 2010 Online Tool now.

Publication and Sponsorship Proposals


Creative Animal Safari Applied Natural Selection at your local zoo.

Wild Ideas inspirational, self-help radio vignettes featuring fascinating animal adaptations.

Articles

Animal Crackers
Focus Magazine of the American Creativity Association, Vol. 21, No. 3
by Stephen Grossman and Peter Lloyd

The Search for Animal Inventors by Judy Milius, Science News

Ecomimesis: Copying ecosystems for fun and profit


Blogs

Zoologger News updates on animals and animal adaptations from New Scientist.


Books about Biomimicry, Animal Innovation, and books about primates by Frans de Wall

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus

The Biophilia Hypothesis edited by Stephen R. Kellert and Edward O. Wilson

Insights from Insects: What bugs can teach us by Gilbert Waldbauer


Songs extolling the elucidating power of animal adaptations.
Click button to play. Click title for lyrics.
Ahdoolak Fish Shuffle
     A life lesson in grabbing opportunities before they get gobbled up.
Banana Slug
     Meet an easy-going critter with whom you may have a lot in common.
A Day in the Life of a Three-Toed Sloth

     If any animal has it made, it's this antithesis of blind ambition.
Skink the Lizard
     How one of our four-legged cousins makes the most of losing his butt.

Related Links
Ask Nature The online inspiration source for the biomimicry community.
Autumn Lab Focuses on physiology, biomechanics, and evolution of animal locomotion. Applications in the design of legged climbing robots and novel adhesives.
Biomimicry Institute Nature as model, measure, and mentor
Biomimicry Guild Introduction to the concept, case studies, and feedback
Biotics Overview and link on Wikipedia.
Encyclopedia of Life "Imagine an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth, available everywhere by single access on command." —Edward O. Wilson
Nature Logic Biomimicry: Secrets Hiding in Plain Sight
Science A Go Go Latest science news from the Animal Kingdom
Using Nature as a Design Guide Business Week: Janine Benyus, helps companies look to the natural world to help take their business green
   


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