I have great respect for the biologists who work very hard and study various animal species very patiently. They greatly add to our knowledge. But some people tend to look at animal species and map human behavior to that of animals. They tend to justify any behavior because some animal species have similar behavior. We do not need to emulate the behavior of animals. We can not!
And animal behavior is so varied! Which species are we going to follow; apes, chimps, dolphins, ants or hummingbirds? All species have adapted their behavior to survive and flourish. Why should we emulate the behavior some species?
We have a long cultural, social and scientific history of growth. And somewhere along the line there was a big jump in the intelligence. This increased intelligence and the social cultural factors have made humans very different from the other species. All that is true for animals may not be true for human beings. The ability of human beings to record and transfer collective knowledge from one generation to another has made human beings very different from the other species.
We are the only species on this planet that uses symbols and words to solve problems, convey ideas, thoughts and emotions. We draw, paint, make music, choreograph dance, create beautiful buildings and build new marvels of technology. We are driven by the desire to know the secrets of life, to create beauty, to explore the universe. We classify, formalize, codify all we learn, be it music or mathematics.
At this point in time we really do not know why and how all this happened. We are definitely different from the other species on this planet. Perhaps a little more intelligent than the other species! We not just animals.
