Mostly this is true of humans but that is not what this posting is about. I am referring to lives of different species. Certainly there is some case for it with our aqueous dwelling Earthly cohabitants. Dolphins are at the top of the list but by no means the only species of underwater living that displays signs of intellect, feeling and survival. Just as I premise here in my blog, we have the same caring, curiosity and will to survive that most of the life here on Earth displays. We may do it differently in action but the similarities in effect mirror one another. We have the birds in the sky that also are sentient and intelligent and no one in their right mind could ever dispute that birds, in general, are not as survival driven as any other species, including us. Then we have the terra firma dwellers, of which we humans currently dominate. We humans have honed our senses to the point of expressing them in language and written word so that our thoughts and insights, for what they are worth, can be recorded and passed down through generations for all of our species to learn, in theory that is. It seems that our other land species' are not as elaborate in obvious intelligence but to dismiss that they are not intelligent is an arrogance on our part that will always be a weak spot in our ability to defend our own species survival. Adaptation is the hallmark of a species or even a class of humans to survive and if that is not a pure sign of intelligence then I live in an alternate Universe. That they care for each other within their species is obvious as they nurture their young as we do. Many cases of extraordinary behavior between classes of species has me convinced that although they do not communicate in the easiest of ways for us to understand, there is some effort on their part to do just that.
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