We may not be more than "other" animals, but it doesn't take many brains to observe (1) that we eat a lot more of them than they of us and (2) we seem to have figured out how to corral them, and not the reverse and (3) the closest they come to the Sistine Chapel or "Prayer for My Duaghter" or "Tiger Tiger" or a Stradivarius is a conical pile of mud and straw or the remarkable but crude weave of the oriole's nest. And I have to wonder how many of them are multilingual?

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