What is the mechanism that allows birds to build nests, beavers to build dams, or spiders to spin webs – without anyone teaching them how?

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Those are awfully complex structures, I couldn’t make one!

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I’ve asked this question several times without a satisfactory answer. If the animal is just born with this weird quirk, like a spider building a web, then it follows that, the spider has the ability to build an intricate web in an area that makes sense to catch bugs, it then hides and waits for a bug to get caught, it races out, wraps the bug up, eats it, repairs the web, and does it again… All without knowing why it’s doing what it’s doing!? Not only that, but what about us humans? If this weird autonomous behavior is the norm in the entire animal kingdom, then it stands to reason that we humans also have an instinct, regardless of our higher thinking ability, under it as we are also spinning webs for seemingly no reason, but what are we doing instead of spinning webs?

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