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why don't other animals build cell phones?

posted a year ago by 123Guy (7839)
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yeah yeah, we have opposable thumbs, and are pretty smart, but we too started by living in caves.
most apes have opposable thumbs, CAN learn language, CAN hold a stick...
Even DOGS pick up on language a little.
Dolphins are super intelligent... maybe smart enough to NOT start their own industrial revolution?
An octapus is super smart, has tons of physical abilities, maybe more than we have with eight suction tentacles...
We have elephants that can paint pictures ....
Beavers BUILD frickin condominiums moving sticks around...
Birds build nests from twigs and navigate magnetically....

How come no other animals are evolving to make their own recordable language, or vehicles for moving faster, or cell phones?

[–] ShadowHunter (814) a year ago

All the traits/abilities you mentioned some animals may have one of two of them, but we have them all combined.

Also we can do something else thats massive. humans can think of things that dont exist. this creativity allows us to invent and problem solve in a way other animals cannot.

as we harnessed agriculture and technology, we escaped natural selection (largely) and societies grew. another thing we did and do is specialize and learn. the growth in society meant people specialized in one job, would become masters at it, and pass down knowledge in a way animals cannot.

[–] 123Guy (7839) a year ago

i kind of agree... a little....

but, when I was 4 or 5, i wasn't thinking up creative things... I was being educated by parents and schools to learn language and communications. after I was trained to function (not naturally) then I could look at things and be creative.
maybe if we trained apes to get language and communicate, they could think outside the box too? Or dolfins? i dunno