| The Prize
I watched an Elephant paint a more accurate picture of an elephant than I could hope to accomplish, in less time than it would take me to find the brush.
There are examples of animal intelligence spread over a vast range of the animal kingdom that are being discovered or recently recognized nearly every week.
Man does have the unique ability to circumvent nearly every natural balancing agent that all other animals are subject to. (lack of food, over population, disease)
Well... we HAVE been able to circumvent those limitations thus far. If things don't change we may very well be put back into our place and then it could become painfully apparent how little we can differ from our more feral neighbors.
Animals are great agents for heralding natural change. To think ourselves entirely above them is to believe ourselves to be removed from our own world. Ironic that such a misconception could in-fact prove itself to be true. | 