“Many creatures blow us away at sight, hearing, smell, response time, diving and flying capacities, sonar abilities, migratory and homing abilities (even under the sea, sensing Earth’s magnetic field). Various abilities of many other animals enormously exceed ours. Many are super-hunters. Extreme athletes. (Humans are best at running on two legs — if you exclude ostriches.) Different brains emphasize different abilities, enabling different living beings to excel at exploiting different circumstances.