Animal Powers
Bore it yourself.
Animals grouped here express a similar power through their behavior in nature. Each species still has its own principle, lesson, meaning, and field-guide page.
2 species
Species principle: Bored Tunnel
Bore it yourself.
Persistent, careful effort can quietly shape sturdy homes and shared habitats.
A female Xylocopa chews a near-perfect round tunnel into dead wood at roughly a couple of centimetres a day, then partitions it into brood cells with walls of chewed pulp; the same gallery is often reused and extended by her daughters across generations.
Species principle: No Sea Stage
Skip the return trip.
Dropping a dependency on your origin is what lets you settle somewhere new.
Marine crabs release larvae that must develop at sea. Freshwater crabs skip that stage entirely — large yolky eggs hatch straight into miniature crabs, carried under the mother until they can walk — and that is what let the group colonise rivers, streams and hill forest far from any coast.
