Our intelligence, passion, and rationality is more highly developed. Conscience is another characteristic worth mentioning. That is a major thing that separates us from other beings. Also, we have freewill. We rationalize and then make choices. Animals just do what comes naturally.
I feel animals are more intelligent than most people think they are. They can be compassionate, loving and will miss their masters when they are absent.
2007-02-03 13:04:30
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answer #1
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answered by Sunnidaze 3
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It seems that there are none to speak of after watching a program last night about Elephants. Even Elephant have the equivalent of an opposable thumb on the end of it's trunk. All animals can communicate, and with each other. Not so us Humans. Animals live quite happily with what the earth provides for them, in a cave or in a tree, or a hole in the ground. We are the only animal on earth that is not required as we are not in the food chain. We are the problem, not the earth, not the weather, earthquake or volcanic eruption, we are the parasites of the land and the seas, taking all and giving nothing in return. We will deserve all that is coming to us in time to come.
2016-05-24 00:54:16
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answered by Anonymous
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Love, humor, sadness...we can never prove that other animals do not feel this emotions. How can we prove that the dolphin is incapable of contemplating his own existance, or that the whales' songs are not actually the most beautiful poetry ever composed if only we knew how to understand it? Other primates can do very well on simple logical problems and are able to develop simple tools. And yes, even cold-blooded murders have been observed among gorillas.
The only thing that we are demonstrably able to do, that other animals do not do, is manipulate the environment.
Some animals build nests; humans build cities full of our own "nests". We cultivate and even synthesize food for ourselves, whereas all other animals must subsist on what they can find or hunt. Other creatures develop impressive physiological and anatomical adaptations to the local climate. Humans invent devices that force the climate to adapt to our preferences. Cows may graze, fish may swim, birds may fly. We build cars to take us where we want to be. These elaborate technologies appear to force the world into our control, while true control remains seductively elusive. That is what separates us from other animals.
2007-02-03 14:41:14
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answered by Anonymous
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We have the ability to plan ahead. We murder and rape for no sensible reason. Animals cannot do that. When they do plan ahead it is usually instinctual things, not actually thinking it out.
We plan intentional evil and are capable of negative ethics and lack of scruples whereas animals just are in the moment. Our great intelligence (!?!) allows us ways to devise to kill and hurt each other senselessly. When an animal kills it is for a reason most of the time.
For animals to survive in the wild there is survival of the fittest that rules all life. Humans no longer live by that mantra. Personally, I do not know which is better, I tend to go along with the animals more often than not.
Few animals mate for life, this happens primarily in the bird kingdom. Monogamy is not a natural human trait. We have the ability to create evil and act against our basic nature. We are capable of remorse and guilt.
Oh and we have the ability to invent religions and gods and play with our spirituality. Animals do not do that.
Oh I have rambled but all boils down to the ability think, to plan ahead. Animals do not know right from wrong because this does not matter in the animal kingdom. They just are as they were made to be.
The important thing we must remember is that animals are different creatures than us and although we share the earth with them, alas very poorly on our behalf, they see and comprehend the world completely differently from us. They have senses developed highly and their own ways of living. Just because they differ means that humans are any better or more valuable in the overall scheme of nature. Tell me of one animal that destroys its own environment without care! Animals are innocent in the eyes of nature, we are not.
P.S. Tyler, lemmings commit suicide. There is also a school of thought regarding beached whales, dolphins and suicide.
2007-02-03 12:32:37
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answered by Noor al Haqiqa 6
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Unlike all other animals, Humans know they will die. This knowledge arises from the capacity for imagination (which other animals may have), and communication (which humans have perfected, even across generations), amongst other characteristics. It worries most of them, so they invent Gods, religions, heavens, etc to make themselves feel better. But it usually makes them feel worse, firstly because if there's a heaven and eternal life, there has to be a Hell; and secondly because they argue and fight about it; and thirdly because focussing on such fantasies distracts them from dealing with reality. Of course, we have an opposing thumb, too, which (along with the imagination that invents gods) allows us to make and manipulate complex tools so well we can make splendid weapons to kill each other with, and build magnificent "developments" to destroy the ecological systems that support life. The sad thing is we don't seem to have sufficiently widespread intellligence to be able to deal with, and selectively restrain, our own cleverness and combativeness. So we can change Earth's climate, destroy whole species, but avoid changes that would save us from ourselves. No other animal can do all that. But all animals recognise us as simply another animal, and dangerous. Our silliness begins with the assumption that we are seperate from all other animals, and the Earth itself. Good luck!
2007-02-03 12:40:20
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answered by Anonymous
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The difference between humans and animals is wit and intellect, and the cause for this is passion.
Because people can be passionate about things, they can grow to understand and comprehend it.
Thomas Hobbes said that this was the only way that humans differ from animals. (minus physical features)
2007-02-03 12:54:45
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answered by sum_guy 3
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only 1 thing really our intelligence we have same functions as rest of animal kingdom
2007-02-03 12:22:51
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answered by Anonymous
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Humans use logic, animals use instinct.
2007-02-03 12:26:22
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answered by nessie 2
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I believe it is our ability to reason.
But who are we to decide that other animals don't have the ability to reason?
2007-02-03 12:28:30
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answered by . 4
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opposable thumbs and an advanced brain cortex
2007-02-03 12:23:00
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answered by cav 5
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