Comment author:CronoDAS
15 July 2009 05:27:43AM
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5) Dogs, cats, cows, and many other mammals are capable of linguistic reasoning and have made many efforts to communicate with us, but humans are only capable of recognizing other humans as capable of thought.
A variant: Some "domesticated" animal is controlling humans for their own benefit. (Cats, perhaps?)
A variant: Some "domesticated" animal is controlling humans for their own benefit. (Cats, perhaps?)
Just passing by but happened to see this today: http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=cat-call-coerces-can-opening-09-07-14
(So maybe the mice thing was just Douglas Adams' cat trying to put us off the scent)