Does the fact that we wear clothes and animals don't mean we're the superior race on the planet, or is it the other way around?

We think we're pretty special, right? After all, we have opposable thumbs. We innovate. We have created art, literature, philosophy, industry, consumerism and houses that big bad wolves can't blow down. We have created alternative means of transportation, and various systems to monitor our uses of it (ie: freaking traffic cops!!!).

Top THAT animal kingdom.

What have the animals produced? Oh sure, beavers create dams, and birds create nests, but monkeys fling poo for goodness sake.

Seems like a pretty open and shut case, but perhaps we're looking at this all wrong.

The animal kingdom is far from perfect, but with the exception of bovine flatulence, I really can't come up with too many ways animals are steering our planet toward an early demise. We, on the other hand, act non-sensically and have screwed this blue marble up beyond all recognition, and are threatening to obliterate it all together.

We produce emissions and waste that is defiling the Earth and the air. We voraciously consume artifical foods that make us fat, then exercise and diet to diminish our girth. We pay to plant grass and eradicate weeds, then we pay to fertilize and irrigate the grass, and then we pay to have it cut it down every week. And instead of going outside and engaging in activities, we turn on the television and watch reality TV. Worst of all, we have created incendiary devices that can vaporize the planet many times over.

Frankly, as the supreme beings on the planet, we're pretty shitty role models.

When's the last time you saw an animal stressed-out about making it's mortgage payment, or buying a new car to compete with the one the neighbors just drove home, or waiting in line for the newest iPad/Pod, etc? Come to think of it, when's the last time you saw one wearing clothes (excluding those poor miserable canines whose owners dress them in silly outfits), or plying a date with alochol and food to get sex?

No wonder the aliens are studying us so intently. They're not trying to enslave us; they're trying to alter our path before we ruin all the good fishing holes!