Eli5 why does animals not innovate like humans?

Question

So humans have made many innovations and new technology over the past thousand years but animals never do?

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Answer 1

Humans spent more than 200000 years in the stone age. We just recently moved on from stones and rocks a few thousand years ago. Our primate cousins and the corvids are still in it.
When we spent that long in the stone age, I don’t think we can fault any other group for doing the same.
And how do you know that crows haven’t improved the stick hook a couple of times over the last 10000 years? Innovation, in the animal kingdom, **can** happen without us knowing!