They can’t make it themselves. Little fire cucks. That’s what made us really pop off. 14 billion years and only planetary scale forces could do that and then boom, some monkeys figure out if you hit two of the right rocks together in just the right way you can start fire anywhere anytime.
Plenty of creatures have sticks. We’re monkies with fire, nothing else has that.
We also enslaved rocks to do our bidding. I’m holding a collection of them right now to communicate with you. Hello fellow monkey!
https://wildlife.org/australian-firehawks-use-fire-to-catch-prey/
They can’t make it themselves. Little fire cucks. That’s what made us really pop off. 14 billion years and only planetary scale forces could do that and then boom, some monkeys figure out if you hit two of the right rocks together in just the right way you can start fire anywhere anytime.