I’ve never asked a squirrel to tell me a story. I have never expected abstract thinking from a dolphin or assumed one could fabricate an entire new world of characters for me to imagine. Some would say that I could not expect these things from animals, that creativity, imagination, is a solely human capability. Even as some animals have been handed tools to make art with and proceed to do so - we can’t assume that their intention behind these pieces is artistic. We can’t ask them of their intention, and we can't enforce an artistic reading on their actions. Imaginative problem-solving and predictive reasoning can be seen quite impressively in animals like crows (Klump et al., 2019) or elephants (Pardo et al., 2024) but does that really correlate to imagination for imaginations sake? The ability to conceptualise other worlds, other lives, just to entertain ourselves....