The industry is still a 'creature of' the 1930s. [=it began in the 1930s and has not changed]
They say that these forests are filled with wild 'creatures'. [='beasts']
I'm a 'creature of habit'. [=I always do the same things in the same way]
(..) but the Russian cats have thick fur to shield them from the cold. There are only forty Amur leopards left in the wild and that number is falling. Like so many creatures, the cats have been pushed to the very edge of extinction by hunting and the destruction of their habitat. (..)2006 TvShow: Planet Earth Title: From Pole to Pole Season: 1 Episode 1
(..) winter in Antarctica. It's continuously dark and temperatures drop to minus seventy degrees centigrade. The penguins stay when all other creatures have fled because each guards a treasure: a single egg rested on the top of its feet and kept warm beneath the downy bulge of its stomach. (..)2006 TvShow: Planet Earth Title: From Pole to Pole Season: 1 Episode 1