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In reply to the discussion: Humans are not smarter than animals - we just don't understand them [View all]Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)38. We are not blind or deaf; nor do we lack a sense of smell.
Compared to dogs, for example,
1. Our eyesight is better than theirs. We see a greater variety of colors and finer detail at a distance.
2. Our hearing is inferior to theirs in some respects. They can hear softer sounds and higher frequencies than we can.
3. Their sense of smell is superb; ours is vestigial. This is hardly surprising, considering our upright posture and our descent from tree-dwellers.
We could make similar comparisons between humans and cats, humans and birds, humans and dolphins, etc. The upshot would be that we humans are not generally deficient, compared to other animals, in our ability to sense what is going on in the world.
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Humans are not smarter than animals - we just don't understand them [View all]
Judi Lynn
Dec 2013
OP
wiser yes. human beings have barely (if at all) retained the ability to have fun for no reason
Voice for Peace
Dec 2013
#26
I don't doubt that animals are intelligent. I do doubt they are as intelligent as humans beings.
Jim__
Dec 2013
#11
We often fail to see the intelligence of animals because of our tendency to anthropomorphize.
gtar100
Dec 2013
#14
How many animals do you think are working out what goes on in the minds of other species?
muriel_volestrangler
Dec 2013
#16
Redefining 'intelligence', and then using that to say "we're not more intelligent than other animals
muriel_volestrangler
Dec 2013
#18
Intelligence can be compared; humans are more intelligent than other animals
muriel_volestrangler
Dec 2013
#46
Only humans have complex language, both spoken and written, and indulge in abstract thought.
Lionel Mandrake
Dec 2013
#21
LOL! So, regurgitation of the ignorance-based arguments that led to an erroneous conclusion
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2013
#31
Certainly. The problem lies when one species that lacks the senses to even have
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2013
#35