If you could think of one thing the Royal ‘we’ do that other members of the flora and fauna don’t, what do you think it’d be?
Religion? Politics? Oil changes while you wait?
IMHO, it’s gotta be cooking. What a weird, strange, counter-intuitive thing to do. And yet so much of our diet is fried, steamed, boiled, nuked, or broiled.
Fried chicken
Custard
Potstickers (seamed and THEN fried)
So, what ELSE do we do that the Dolphins and the Orangutan don’t?
We tell stories.
Okay, so we don’t know if dolphins and orangutans tell each other stories (I’m guessing orangs don’t since they’re solitary) but I figure it’s a good guess.
The thing that separates us from animals is that we don’t use our tongues to clean our own genitals.
– Red Dwarf
Laugh?
Know we’re going to die?
(And yes I think the two are related.)
Have sex for pleasure? (well, yes, animals engage in sexual activitiy {like mounting each other} for reasons other than reproduction, and bonobos at least seem to do it for pleasure, but I believe we’re the only ones who have intercourse for pleasure.)
Have sexual fetishes?
Use abstractions? (To the point where it has to be pointed out that “This is not a hat”…nobody else would be fooled 
)
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Weaseling out of things is what separates us from the animals… except the weasel.
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I’ve heard that before, but I think animals purely have sex for pleasure. I doubt many are consciously aware of it’s reproductive function. OTOH, I would say it should be the other way around and that we would be the only ones to have intercourse at times specifically for the purpose of reproduction.
I would say one thing that separates us from the animals is the use of technology to adapt to our environment. Sure, chimps may use sticks to pull termites out of their nests, but you don’t see one making a coat and moving to northern Europe.
Schadenfreude.
Along the tool lines: It’s not so much that humans are the only animals which use tools. Rather, I would say that humans are the only animal that depends on tools. Take away the chimp’s termite stick, and he’ll still do just fine. Take away all of a human’s tools, though, and he’s screwed.
Regular, phillips, torx, or Robertson?
Yes, but admit it, we would if we could.
“I’d never leave the house” goes the standup comic joke.
One notion I heard when I was younger is that we are the only ones that make tools to make tools.
I’ll see your Potsticker and raise you one Bagel (Broiled, Boiled, Baked, then toasted)
But what really differentiates us from animals is not tools, but machines. Starting with the wheel.
Granted this is just from the 1st site that popped up in a search engine, but it seems widely accepted that these apes are just plain horny.
<Steel Magnolias>Our ability to accessorize.</SM>
The ability to stand upright. From that, all else follows.
Hmmm…good point. Or at least good distinction.
Of course I meant we are the only animals to mate outside of a reproductive cycle. Which means, yes, while other animals ONLY do it because they’re horny (when they’re supposed to be horny) we do it for pleasure, for intentional reproduction, out of bordom, out of guilt, just to be nice, because it’s his birthday…and so on…
I have to question that characterization. Yeah, being soft and hairless and slow, we need tools. But take away our tools and we’re not screwed…we’ll make more tools. In fact I’m not sure we could stop ourselves 
Gotta love those bonobos.
Er…not literally of course…
Opposable thumbs.
You obviously haven’t spent a lot of time at the monkey house.