Yup. Us, the Kangaroo and the T-Rex.
The thing that separates man from all the other animals is that we’re the only ones perenially worried about whether there’s some defining characteristic that separates us from all the other animals.
Dammit, Larry. I was going to say “obviously you’ve never owned a cat.”
I bet you got some perverse pleasure out of ruining my joke. How very human of you.
Soft and slow, sure, but I doubt anyone would describe me as “hairless.” And what I do with my tool is my own business, thanks.
Now there’s a good one. I had a dog who acted human at times, but when he got around other dogs, he never copped the “Uh, I’m not with them” attitude.
And I don’t want to hijack the thread, but that’s what part of what pisses me off about the over-zealous so-called “animal rights” groups. Cruelty I’m 100% hard-line against of course, but I’ve got to roll my eyes every time I see one of those “Why do we keep some animals as pets and eat other animals as food?” (And considering I worked in Berkeley for a three years, my eyes got to really hurting). We do the former because we’re compassionate; we do the latter because we are animals.
Have any other animals been conned into that whole “Is there a god” and “my god is better than your god” thing?
It seems that animals just cark it and don’t fuss about what happens next. They rarly start wars because the tribe the next tree over disagrees about where they go when they die.