2006-09-24 04:19:33 · 17 answers · asked by David H 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
The raccoon. They have hands and are semi-bipedal and are omnivorous. Over a period of time, they would develop tighter social groupings, develop language, and tell tales of a 'lost tribe' of proto-raccoons (us) that left strange and mysterious artifacts.
2006-09-24 04:22:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well sombody else said cockroaches and they are on the plus side of things as you can cut their head off and they only die of starvation, but as far as ingenuity and working together for a single goal (survival) my money would be on the ANTS. They tend gardens, milk certain insects for their milk, they take slaves to work for them, The common Black Ants and Wood Ants have no sting, but they can squirt a spray of formic acid. Some birds put ants in their feathers because the ants squirt formic acid which gets rid of the parasites. The Slave-Maker Ant (Polyergus Rufescens) raids the nests of other ants and steals their pupae. When these new ants hatch,they work as slaves within the colony. The worker ants keep the eggs and larvae in different groups according to ages.(they organize efficiently and work together for the good of the whole.
With their combined weight greater than the combined weight of all humans, ants are the most numerous type of animal.
Strong in relation to their size, ants can carry 10 to 20 times their body weight. They work in teams to move extremely heavy things.
Ant brains are largest amongst insects. Mushroom shaped brain appendages have function similar to the gray-matter of human brains.
It has been estimated that an ant's brain may have the same processing power as a Macintosh II computer.
Ants have my vote. and roaches. yeach.
2006-09-24 11:31:59 · answer #2 · answered by honorbright24 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Other than a different type of monkey , the dolphins would probably evolve back into land animals , after-all they were smart enough to leave the land before the humans took over . Ever wonder why it always looks like they are laughing at us stupid humans !!!!
2006-09-24 12:42:05 · answer #3 · answered by rocknrod04 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cockroaches
2006-09-24 11:20:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Insects already outnumber humans. Define dominate.
2006-09-24 11:28:51 · answer #5 · answered by S.A.M. Gunner 7212 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably Apes or Gorillas. They are the next smartest animals on earth so they would probably be the most dominant.
2006-09-24 13:25:46 · answer #6 · answered by Traveler 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coleptera (the beetles) are ALREADY dominant. There are 1.4 million described species on earth today, of which more than one quarter are beetles!
2006-09-24 11:34:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bears.
2006-09-24 11:45:20 · answer #8 · answered by water boy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The insect world.
2006-09-24 11:31:01 · answer #9 · answered by no nickname 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably none because the way we are going to do it is with nuclear bombs. Yet I always heard cockroaches will live forever.(HA HA)
2006-09-24 13:27:33 · answer #10 · answered by sjn4421 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋