Blog 15

David Abram shows how animal and human intelligance differ but also relates it in a way that shows that animals are not superior to humans and humans are not superior to animals. Animals think just as much as humans do; however, they think in a different way that humans do. They think differently only because they think to fit their own needs. They think in ways that help them to survive in the habitat that they live in, just as humans do things to stay alive in the habitats they live in. Both humans and animals speak but in different ways. He demonstrates this with the birds. Birds are very vocal creatures. Another thing that Abram shows is that animals are just as capable as humans to express emotion and fear. When a danger is near or birds need to alert one another they have certain vocal sounds. They speak in a type of bird language that is different than humans, but it works for them and it can even work for other species of birds. Abram shows that there might be a species barrier, but it is not nearly as big of a barrier as most people see it to be. Animals and humans have a lot of things in common. Body language is one thing that humans and animals have in commong. It is in a different way but both species do it. Same with vocal sounds. Humans speak and birds have songs or vocal sounds. It all is nearly the same thing just in different ways that the other species does not understand. Speech and thought is not only a human trait. Abram shows that things in nature also do those things.