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Of course animal are dumb, which we all know means "lacking the power of speech" or "not willing to speak." That does not mean that they are not capable of using language. Dogs clearly can learn a number of words, probably a few dozen. Any one who has had to spell B-A-T-H knows this. Primates have learned sign language. They had limited vocabularies, but they did learn to use proper syntax. Are they as intelligent as people? Of course not. But some species are capable of some behavior that indicates some level of what we call intelligence (or what everyone but Sixate calls intelligence).
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I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
Robert A Heinlein in "They Do It With Mirrors"
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