Politics is definitely not unique to humans - alliance-building is commonplace among social animals. It's well-known that primates have a sense of fairness, so

Politics is definitely not unique to humans - alliance-building is commonplace among social animals. It's well-known that primates have a sense of fairness, so they might have causes too. News is essentially gossip writ large, so if other animals have language then they definitely have this. Banking, photography, driving, movies, software and hardware are all recent human inventions, so it's kinda irrelevant whether other animals have those Clothing may be unique to humans, but historically not all humans have used clothes. Bird and whale song is probably music. Birds do courtship dances. IMO this probably counts as art. Again if other animals have language they might also have comedy, religion, theatre - without knowing that they don't have language then we can't rule those out. Business - not sure. If other animals have trade then I guess that's business? There's some evidence of exchange among other animals, but I'm not sure it counts as "trade" https://theconversation.com/what-trade-deals-can-teach-us-about-the-animal-kingdom-68686 https://theconversation.com/what-trade-deals-can-teach-us-ab... All that's left unique to us is cooking. I suspect your first list could be reduced to one definite - "fire" - and two maybes "language" and "trade". I'd bet that maybe animals have language, but that we haven't deciphered it yet