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

We have smart brains

Hands with opposable thumbs

And we need to innovate to survive. We don’t have lots of fur, we don’t have claws and sharp teeth, we have really good stamina but other than that we’re sorta… Meh

But we figured out we don’t need those. We can make clothes to simulate fur, knives to simulate claws and sharp teeth, we can chase animals until they can’t run anymore or lure them into traps, perhaps even befriend them to help hunt other animals

TL;DR: We’re built different and needed to innovate