A quote adding to Nissa's point.

Yes, it's a movie quote, but you can see the validity here.

I love that movie!
On Topic: 'Smart' is too relative a term. Intelligence is not measured by how well you can survive in a jungle or a computer lab. Consider this: Humans spent years of their lives working hard, hating their job, learning, hating school, increasing the life expectancy of other humans, starting wars, stopping wars at a high cost, and making themselves miserable. Animals seek food, and when they find it, they are happy. Animals seek shelter, and when they find it, they are happy. If they have an abundance of food, then they save it, or share it, or eat it. If they are low on food, they find a way to get more. Such a simple lifestyle sounds very appealing to me. I would rather be an animal.

...? all a human has to do is break the neck. a human baby can kill a mouse!

going for the neck, eyes, and attacking from behind, is something even a human can figure out, without being taught.


humans are capable of silent communication. we have our eyes and limbs, and other exposed parts of the body. someone does not have to be in tears, or make audible noises of crying, to let you know that they are hurt or upset.

young animals NEED to be taught to communicate without audible noises. they watch their parents or other members of their group.

some is instinctive, but certainly not all of it.


hmm. if i see a gray cloud coming. i know its going to rain. its not difficult.

at times parts of my body ache or swell if there is a bad storm or change in weather. and plenty of other humans have the same thing happen to them.

some people get headaches when an earth quake comes. some people are born sensitive to such things.

we may not have the hearing or smelling distance, but we have the sense to know a change in weather.



just because you feel pampered in your life, it does not mean there are no other humans who do indeed know how to live off the land. how do you think humans survived for so long?

there are plenty of people who have lived and even were accepted - into a group of wild animals. the human had to study how to interact.

what about people who live in the Amazon, whos only experience with technology was people coming to film them and take pictures?

are they unintelligent?
they lack schools, computers, and at times -clothing. but they have lived that way for hundreds of years. and still going strong

Animals accept what they know and what is around them, its a matter of surviving. there is nothing telling them to believe in or not to believe in something.

Awww! Is a Yumeh kitty ^_^ *cuddles the kitty*

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People seem to forget that humans are also animals and we are also the product of millions of years of evolutionary selection. We have fighting for shelter/territory/food bred into us as well. I don't think it is fair to judge that humans kill out of "cold blood" and other animals supposedly do it for reasons that are better.

Perhaps we are contained within the natural processes and maybe things like violent crime and suicide are here because we are animals, not in spite.

If you put a population of rats inside a closed environment and limit their food and water, then they will go through this fluxing cycle:

At first their population will increase to the point that they do not have enough food or water to sustain themselves. Then they will start to manifest strange aggressive behaviors, such as killing each other, not looking after their babies. Then the population will be very low and the cycle starts all over again.

oh of course animals are smarter
one time, I was trying to pull this door open and I thought it was stuck, but then my dog Romie got on his hind legs and pushed it open with his front paws and walked through
and I was all like O:
and he gave me this cheesy dog grin like he was laughing at me, it was nuts I tell you C:

Yeah, that is very true. The crappy thing is that we won't change. Even if we all know it to be true that we are going to make ourselves extinct, we won't change.

And yay! Yumeh agrees with me! :D

there are house dogs who get out of their territory, who will attack little dogs. what is that about?

i remember my teacher telling me about what happened to her poodle. two large dogs broke into her yard and -her words" 'raped' her dog. they basically terrorized the neighborhood for days before and after.

there are even dolphins, known for their "friendly nature/personality". who will go around to other Pods and kill the them or flip the babies out of the water. after that they leave the territory.


both humans and animals are capable of sitting with someone who looks upset.

for every person who drives by a supposed suicide. there are likely a number who call the police.

we are a thick-headed race to be sure
yep
animals are pretty much smarter than us in most all ways

So it's a waste of energy, to Think and Learn?

i say you two are own your own with that one. :?

Whoa, we wouldn't exactly know what to do in that type of situation because we aren't born in that kind of an environment. That doesn't mean we're stupid. If the person had the will to live, they'd figure away out. Just like putting an animal in a different environment than it's used to and watching it scramble, doesn't mean it's stupid.
I'm sure many people have said this already, humans ARE animals. Only, we figured out a way to build and invent things that make our surroundings work for us. In a sense I think humans are smarter, but we make some shitty decisions.

But there are people in the world that live with no technology. There are still people living in remote places, and hard to reach areas like the Himalayas. Some people choose to live that way (the Amish) even when they have it available. Does that make them smarter than the rest of the human population?

some animals maybe :)

animals are very smart but humans are smart too , sometimes i just wonder cuz dogs can be really smart but sometimes they are so stupid :) i really don't know ..

I don't really see how learning is a waste of time. :?

I think humans are still better off than animals.

Here are my reasons
Humans managed to reproduce and take over the world. We increased in numbers up to the point that our population has reached the greatest outskirts of the world. We conquered sickness, decreased our mortality, invented all sorts of technology to make our life easier.

Having an easy life doesn't make us humans dumb. WE made this easy life. We created culture and technology so that we don't need to go through the hardships of animals in searching for food.

Let's take into account that when we used to live in hunting-gathering societies, we used to have the sharp instincts of animals. What you're presenting is an argument of a cultured man being thrown into the jungle. But how about a man BORN in the jungle? I think that man can function just as well as the next animal.

Our edge with other animals is that we have a bigger brain. We have evolved to be this way and speech is created because of our low larynx, impossible to do with other forms of animals. I'm basing this on anthropological findings.

So the animal instinct your pointing out can be easily learned by the next man unless he's too sensitive to learn. Just take survivor for example. You can see how people try to survive even in the so-called jungle.

Humans may seem more advanced, but in truth we are just as smart as animals. We feel pain, we rely on our instincts most of the time. Think of a high school, and compare it to a pack of wild animals, say, wolves for example. We have the center of attention - the preps - as the dominant males and females. They control the whole pack. And then we have the followers, the loners, the pups, and so on. It all ties together.

We are just as intelligent as animals. Though it pains me to say that saying that would make animals seem highly unintelligent.