Animals don't have our lifestyle. They don't eat meat created in labs. They don't drink carbonated drinks. They don't tweet. Animals are animals. They don't fight for land and ostracize based on faith. While we are animals ourselves, I argue that we are without question the most destructive. Terrorizing forests, killing our great lakes and destroying land are good examples of how we have treated our earth poorly, and the introduction of the bomb is the pinnacle of how destructive we are. We are animals, and as great as we are, we shouldn't deem ourselves more intelligent when we have spent an incredibly small amount of time trying to understand other species. We know some are very evolved mentally, such as whales, but we ultimately treat other animals displays poorly and take for face value: that if it looks dumb, it is dumb. We simply assume that if it isn't human, it isn't aware of itself or the concept of family.