Mockingbirds are mimics, not polyglots.

Anyway, it is debatable whether all "animals" are of like ability or awareness. I've known horses smarter than some people. Or so it seemed. Within any class of anmals it has always seemed to me to be true, much as it is with humans, that the individual brings his own show to the body and some have a lot to say for themselves and others not.

And, like humans, the livelier ones leave a clear, tangible vacuum when they drop the body.

The issue of creativeness (as distinguished from creationaism) goes into much broader corners than this animals-are-people-too topic.

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