Now the announcer drops the biggest bombshell. Others never do. This isn't dumb instinct. This is inventive creativity of a kind we like to believe is ours alone. I have a dog who rearranges the pillows to make the colors match.
Creativity is there.
Of course I've never seen an animal design a rocket or write a book. Our capacity for language lets us build on our inventions in some seemingly unique way. Still, I saw that bird try out one geometrical solution after another to solve a complex configurational problem. I watched unmistakable ingenuity. Maybe what we share in common with animals is not our worst propensities at all, but our best ones.