Elephant with Flower

[whitetail]

Lifted from meerkatboy. Prepare to be amazed...

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It's a measure of man's own lack of cognitive awareness that we only look to the stars to find "intelligent life," when in fact it's all around us right here on Earth...

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[jup_reindeer]

It is interesting to think of what some might truly classify as
"intelligent". Most life on Earth is concerned with purely existance. One
gigantic override to this need is the urge to merge. It keeps life going,
wave after wave after wave for every species that prospers in that
respect. And, in a slightly lesser number, it also means meeting the needs
of the young.

Scaling the numbers down dramatically, a few species have the need to
alter their environments to help form to their comforts.

Then...there are the various breeds of Humanity. On a whole, the species
bothers to go beyond just surviving. This level of need varies between
individuals. But, there is a general requirement to dominate their
environment to suit their needs. A select percentage will dominate to the
pont of allowing nothing but their needs to exist to their extent of
ability. Others have more yield. It is an alarmingly low percentage that
let the atmosphere have superior control. And, even this percent is
fractured by the amount that choose to do so.

Perhaps, on the whole, "intelligence" is not being defined so much by
those that can think and have personality, but more by those that can see
eye-to-eye with the Human seekers, in the first place.