Animals create.
Some use their intelligence, self-awareness, and flexibility, three essentials for creativity, to build homes. Beavers engineer their elaborate dams and canals by controlling and creating water flow to transport food and building materials.
Understanding exactly what needs their unique habitats demand, they devise appropriate and creative strategies to meet them. Each caddisfly larva, using the same creative qualities as the beaver, constructs a unique protective case around themselves using sticky silk threads expelled from their head. Individuals carefully choose just the right material, such as plants, sand grains, wood fragments, pebbles, and small shells. With these, they construct the exquisitely intricate cases in which they live for up to two years until shedding them as adults.
Whether they are building, communicating their feelings of anger, empathy, or affection, showing their personalities, improvising a new song, charming and seducing a mate, inventing a new game to play, or adding ...
