A Scientific Hmmmm.....

Ponderingly thinking a "scientific" hmmmm.....

I've come up with another reason that we, as humans, cannot possibly be classified as "animals." I mean, apart from the obvious physical appearance stuff (you know, we're upright and have no tail, etc...) and the fact that more than half of the human couples in the world cannot "mate for life," I think my findings are quite scientific.

When a baby animal grows up, it leaves the nest. In many instances, the parental beasties push it out...shoo it away...in other words, tell it to scram. I've seen this over and over with my rabbits, and you can view it on any nature show on PBS or Animal Planet.

Humans, on the other hand, seem to want their little progeny to leave but have a hard time actually letting go. We tell our kids to grow up, start making their own decisions, and then we challenge those decisions or, worse, give advice. (Not that advice is in and of itself a bad thing...but it's merely an opinion based on our own experiences...) Hmmm....not actually "letting go," really.

We celebrate their first independence: talking, walking, running, reading. Then we try to control where they go and what they do, say, look at. Now, I'm not talking about when the little darlings are still living under their parents' roof, in the "nest." That's when it is the duty of the parental figures to show the little people the correct manner in which to conduct themselves.

I'm thinking more of when the sweet "little ones" have left, made a nest of their own, had their own little spawnlings to raise.

Seems to me that animals are much less interferring in this process.

Which goes to prove why we cannot possibly be animals.

They actually know what they're doing.