Why are humans the only animals that need clothes ?
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Humans aren't in any way the only species that needs clothes.\n\nFirst off humans don't need clothes except in extremes of climate. People all over the world lived for tens of thousands of years without any clothing at all. And not only in the tropics. The Aborigines of Tasmanian were totally naked year round and often lived in climates with significant snowfall. Southern Tasmania is climatically equivalent to New York. Hardly a warm place to live.\n\nPeople benefit from clothes, but as others have pointed out so dod  agreat many other species. The difference is that humans canmake clothes so we do. Most other species lack the ability. But there is no truth in the claim that humans NEED clothes except in the most extreme climates.\n\nThe next point ot recognise is that there are numerous species like termites, caddisflies and lacewings that would die within hours if exposed to even mild climates without protection. In the case of termites thatprobelm is solved by building large permanent structures. Ie the case of caddis flies and lacewings the problem is solved by constructing portable flexible protection out of debris glued together with silk. And what do we callportabale flexible protection? That's right, it's clothing.\n\nIn short the question can't be answered because it presumes two false conditions. Humans don't need clothes and numerous other species do need clothes.
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This is a very good question. Also I can tell for a change it is not a homeworkk question (thank you).\n\nIt's weird ,isn't it? Humanity in less than 10,000 years from our first civilization until now, monkies in that time have done nothing. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? The only thing I can think of is our larger brains. So will any animal ever reach our level of advancement? I doubt it. Some animals do communicate with each other. Some animals have hands like you said so they could build houses with those hands and tools, but they don't. Maybe humanity is the like the Chosen Ones, and can do so much more than animals.
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It's because we are the only planet with living beings that we know of so we only have Earth as an example of what living things need.
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God-fearing men see in animals part of God’s generous provision for human welfare. Animals have served man as burden bearers, as sources of food and clothing, as sanitation agents, and as helpers in the vital activities of plowing and harvesting. Their variety of form and color has delighted his eye; their habits and instincts have been and still are an extensive field for inquiry into the marvels of God’s creative work. Though animals die in the same manner as man, they do not share his hope of a resurrection.—2Pe 2:12; \n\nAnimals were created with a limited life span, humans had the prospect of living on earth forever. (Genesis 3:22, 23; Psalm 37:29) Jesus Christ said that to enjoy “everlasting life,” we must exercise faith and take in knowledge of God—things that animals are incapable of doing. (John 3:36; 17:3)\n\nGod created animals for the sake of humans. Animals can help them do their work and can serve as their companions or pets. They also serve to magnify God’s love and wisdom.\n\nThe Creator gave life to both humans and animals. But for how long were they to continue to live? Scientists report that humans seem to have the potential of endless life, so that investigators are perplexed as to why man dies. The Bible gives the reason. It says that the Creator gave the first humans the opportunity of living forever. Death came only because they rebelled. (Gen. 2:17; 3:17-19; Rom. 5:12) What, though, of animals? They are not capable of conscious rebellion against God; yet they live only for a length of time and then die. Hence, it is clear that the Creator never purposed that individual animals live forever. For them death was natural.—2 Pet. 2:12.
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So they can breath. Their lungs aren't nearly as efficient as ours so they still require to breath through their skin, this can only be done on moist surfaces (this is also why our lungs are moist).
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Most animals do not care about humans too much. Cats and dogs are different. They have been domesticated for so long and were mostly born and raised in a human environment that they have come to understand and be dependent on that environment.\n\nMost other animals find the environments we have created do not suit them. Exceptions are many, of course - everything from the flea, bedbug and cockroach to mice, rats, many birds and some larger animals like foxes and racoons.\n\nWild life in the city is much more than you would think at first glance. Use your eyes and take notice of the plants growing in the cracks in brickwork and on waste ground. Don't think of them as weeds, think of them as life finding a foothold. Look around for insects and bugs and anything small - lizards, for example. Don't  think of them as vermin. They are animals which have adapted themselves to the environment we have created. Some are there because it's not so different from a natural environment for them, some are there because humans generate a lot of waste which is easy pickings and some are there because we ourselves are their source of food!\n\nThe other animals you mention (cattle and horses) are herd animals and need very large areas of grass to survive, wolves live and hunt in packs and need forest and woodland. Vultures find us just too tidy with our large dead bodies which is what they feed on.
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In order to survive, animals need air, water, food, and shelter (protection from predators and the environment); plants need air, water, nutrients, and light. \n\nEvery organism has its own way of making sure its basic needs are met.
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Maybe canids lost the majority of their sweat glands because they weren't helping much under all that fur.  Sweat is only an efficient way of cooling if it can evaporate.  So for animals covered in fur or humans in humid environments, sweat glands aren't very useful.  The sweat glands that dogs do have aren't enough to cool them off so they pant in addition to sweat.  Humans and chimps have the most sweat glands of any mammal. All over body and highest density on palms of hands and soles of feet.   Mammary glands being derived sweat glands puts a whole new spin on that glass of milk doesn't it?\nSpeaking of mammary glands and nipples... did you know that men can lactate?  One of the major stimuli to produce milk is the suckling of a child.  So women who adopt can, with lots of patience and effort, begin to produce milk.  Their are situations in tribal groups where men who are not able to hunt are left behind to care for the children.  In order to soothe a baby they will offer a nipple.  Enough times and they will begin to produce milk.  There is also a bat where it is normal for the male to produce milk and help feed the offspring.
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I don't know that I quite understand you're question, but whether or not humans are mammals, I believe that is correct.  All animals with hair are mammals of some sort so are animals who produce "milk".  So if we aren't mammals exactly what do you think we are?
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The human specialty is intelligence.  We are social animals that work in teams which is added protection.  We do not need speed, bruit force or defense systems like other animals.
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Humans rely on each other to provide basic needs: food, clothing, shelter, companionship.\nHumans rely on their environment to provide those basic needs.  We need sunlight for warmth.  Water to drink and wash with.  Animals to provide food and clothing.  Plants to provide shelter and food.\n\nGood enough?
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it is impossible to answer the first question since at the big bang there was at lest the first  thousand years no atoms.\n\nMany animals  need oxygen  for their need in energy. But for some bacteria oxygen is a poison\n\nOxygen is important to animals since the nervous cells  die quickly without oxygen
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Humans are conscious whereas animals don't seem to be as conscious.  That is because (I believe) Genesis is true when it says that God created man in his own image. People are different than animals and we didn't come from them.  Notice also that people wear clothes (unique in life).  \n\nLove is also not explained by naturalistic theory, it should not be present if we naturalistically, by chance came from non-life (which is impossible anyway).
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On the one hand, Humans ARE animals.\n\nOn the other, we are something "more" than animals because we are sentient and we are significantly more developed. Although all animals have SOME ability to communicate (even if only by stench), and many even know how to make tools, they are still incapable of the advanced feats of humanity.\n\nI suppose that it may by some slim chance be possible that animals are sentient, but I doubt it.
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I think people wear underclothing to absorb the sweat and to protect their clothes from stains.  Underclothing also creates modesty as well.
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Well, humans need animals and plants for food, raw materials, entertainment and other related functions.\n\nHumans can help plants disperse their seeds and can help feed certain animals.
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Those animals have adapted so that they stick out, with vibrant colors that lead the predators away from the females and offspring.\n\nMale humans are supposed to be just bigger, stronger and more capable of protection and hunting, and humans when they were in the wild had no use for an adaptation in appereance.