Bearded Vulture
Species principle: Bonecraft
Drop the bone.
Unusual methods solve the problems everyone else leaves untouched.
Bearded Vultures specialize in eating bone and drop large bones onto rocks to break them open and access marrow.
Animal Powers
Ingenuity
Drop the bone.
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.
4 species
Coconut Octopus
Species principle: Portable Shelter
Carry your shelter.
Planning becomes freedom when safety can travel with you.
Coconut Octopuses are known for carrying coconut shells or shells and using them as portable shelters, a notable example of tool use in cephalopods.
Crested Caracara
Species principle: Grounded Opportunist
Work the opening.
Ingenuity grows when intelligence is willing to scavenge, hunt, and investigate.
Caracaras are adaptable falcons that walk on the ground, scavenge, hunt, and investigate opportunities in open habitats.
Visayan Warty Pig
Species principle: Rooting Ingenuity
Root the hidden pantry.
The ground becomes a pantry when you know how to turn it over.
Visayan Warty Pigs use tough snouts and hooves to root through forest soil and leaf litter for hidden food such as roots, tubers, and invertebrates.