Would you say there has been any other species we know of that was able to cause, perceive, predict, prevent, and react to catastrophes before? We seem to be unique in that we can prevent and react to catastrophes, even ignoring that we can also cause them.

I am not sure whether this is true but aren’t people saying that dogs and other animals can sense incoming earthquakes etc. and will get anxious/try to GTFO?

Isn't that simply because they can hear very low sound frequencies which often come shortly before an earthquake? The technology we have now is far superior at predicting such events using geological vibrations and weather data etc (which still gives quite short warning times, but still).

A bird puts strong sticks at the base of its nest to prevent the nest falling out of a tree.

That sounds like preventing a catastrophe.

Sure, but that works through natural selection. All the birds that didn't use strong sticks eventually fell out of the trees and their offspring died.

But natural selection doesn't work for us. We don't have a large sample of earths where it doesn't matter when humans die out on some of them.