Lessons From The Wild
Super Humans?
"Human superiority is as much a lie as male superiority. Gorillas are
stronger yet gentler than humans, cheetahs swifter and more graceful,
dolphins more playful and exuberant. Bees who perceive ultraviolet light and
dance a message of angle and distance; fish who simultaneously see forward,
above, below, and behind while swimming through endlessly varied tropical
color; birds who navigate over hemispheres, sensing the earth's magnetic
field and soaring in rhythm with the rest of their flock; sea turtles who,
over decades, experience vast stretches of ocean - what wisdom and vision are theirs?
Other animals have other ways of knowing."
-Joan Dunayer, "Sexist Words, Speciesist Roots"