Why are humans not animals?  Why do some people think we are?
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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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Living creatures are souls.  Animal life exhibits will all of time.  I have horses.  Sometimes they do not want to come in from the pasture.  It is fascinating to observe just how willful they really are.  Animals, though, vary in their thought processes depending on the species and their individual instincts that God gave them.  \n\nAlthough animals are living souls, they do not have individual moral responsibility to God.  It is the spirit of God's intelligent creation (angelic beings and mankind) that sets them apart from the animal kingdom.
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There used to be more than one species of humans but they died out. Technically there are animals that are our species like chimps, but are not humans. Some researches even believe we should be part of the same genus as well. All dogs are one species just different breeds like we have different races.  There are probably so many species of frogs because they can all cohabitate on the earth without interfering with each other and killing each other off.
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Yes.  I think that the animals were here first, and just because their brains aren't as developed doesn't mean they don't have feelings.  Animals have every right to be here, if not more.
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Animals and humans are practically one and the same, animals want to eat procreate, protect there young, humans are the same except for one thing, The ability to reason and ask a simple but important question..WHY? \n\nAsking that question has enabled humans to explore and expand,whether evolution or god had a say in that, is another question. But instinctly animals and humans are more similar than some people might like to admit to. \n\nOur behaviour can often be predicted following models based on animals. But the knowledge of our mortality and questioning of it, separates man from beast.
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We don't know that humans are the only creatures that can think deeper.  There's evidence that whales are quite intelligent.  Not to mention there's an awful lot of universe out there to contimplate.
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Humans evolved from animals and most of them haven't really come very far.  The rest of us must do what we can to make the world a better place despite their presence.
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kakani p has it right for the most part, aside from the idea that birds arn't animals.  They are in the animal kingdom, why arn't they animals?\n\ngoing along with that, humans are animals, so if you've ever had a head ache, than so has an animal: You!
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I think if we say humans have souls, we can't say other animals don't.  Seems kind of arrogant, doesn't it?
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THERE IS NO SUCH THING...THERE IS NO HEAVEN..AND THERE IS NO HELL...WE ARE ALL HUMAN ANIMALS
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animals r more civil we r a lower form of life
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The lack of trust between human and human. This can actually be traced back to the worsening performance of human being in caring for others, not being considerate, and step on other's back in order to climb higher.\n\nBelieve it or not, if it is not human, animals are living happily ever after on planet earth.\n\nToday, we are just working hard to solve the problems created by ourselves. The sad truth is, the speed of solutions are far behind the speed of the creation of new problems.
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I don't understand that either because I sure don't.  Animals may be less evolved than we are but they still have emotions and feelings and can show them.  To me, I would rather be around animals and appreciate them more than I do most humans!  They are more simplistic than we are and don't have the same egos we do but they are equal in every way and deserve respect, compassion and love just as we do.  They are a living breathing spirit just like we are and need to be treated as such.
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Supposedly, we are the most advanced animal upon this planet but, after reading some postings here on YahooAnswers I am starting to doubt that theory...\n...I am starting to feel that, even the penguins are more sensible than we, the homo sapiens, are...
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Uh humans are animals!
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Because we are humans not animals. Yes we are all mammals but animals don't love there mate. They just go to them by instinct. But a real true love can only, and should only be shared with one.
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good, i totally agrees with you,are humans a higher form of animal?think again,after the tsunami in Asia,there is not a single animal found among the dead,even the birds are able to know earthquake before man,the only animals that is in the dark is human,so who is the lower or higher form,you be the judge