A children’s book  which talks about the problem-solving strategies of animals, prepared based on interviews with scientists !

Step outside. Look. If squirrels can learn to cross roads by watching people, what can you learn by watching squirrels? All around you, creatures seek solutions. Pigeons procrastinate. Bees calculate. Elephants innovate. Bears keep count. You turn to friends and family for support, and so do other animals. Ravens use gestures to offer ideas. Hyenas cooperate to help the hunt. When they’re seeking direction, dung beetles look to the heavens and steer by the Milky Way.

So much of our anguish in the face of obstacles comes fromjudging them as bad and resisting that particular manifestation of reality, causing ourselves enormous distress in the act of this resistance — and yet here is a powerful reminder that obstacles are neutral events and a natural part of life, which other species face as a matter of course and without negative judgment.

Elin Kelsey

excerpt from; https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/07/13/wild-ideas-kelsey-kim/