stupid for not recognizing the amazing things animals can do,

many of which we can't do ourselves. Perhaps it's we who are

dumb for not being able to circumnavigate the globe without

instruments as albatross do, or find our way home across

thousands of miles of ocean as Blue Whales do.

Maybe humans can actually learn a thing or two from these

"stupid" animals. Animals don't build nuclear weapons to

annihilate each other. Animals don't conjure up religions and

then kill each other in the name of their Gods.

Animals don't systematically torture and abuse and kill billions of other animals (or

each other) the way humans do. Animals don't commit Holocausts. Only human

arrogance would suggest that we're better or smarter than animals. The animals of

the world evolved to be just as they are. They exist for their own

reasons. Only an idiot would call them stupid."