What do you think animals think about sharing the planet with humans

mum2three

God made a big mistake when he put humans on this planet. He should have chosen somewhere where we were not the dominant species.
The rest of nature all fits together very neatly. We are the odd ones out, unless we live in harmony with nature.

The human species right now is a destructive infestation, However, unlike other animals, the human animal can change its cultural practices and beliefs so that it adapts.

edited : adapts and harmonises

Caleo

The beasts are very wise,
Their mouths are clean of lies,
They talk one to the other,
Bullock to bullock brothers
Resting after their labors,
Each in stall with his neighbors,
But man with goad and whip,
Breaks up their fellowship,
Shouts in their silky ears
Filling their soul with fears.
When he has plowed the land,
He says: “they understand.”
But the beasts in stall together,
Freed from the yoke and tether,
Say as the torn flank smoke:
“Nay, ’twas the whip that spoke.”
(Rudyard Kipling, The Beasts are Very Wise)
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That must be from a US edition, or it’d be ‘labours’, ‘neighbours’ and ‘plough’.

(Sorry, my not so inner pedant won’t always be silenced!)

Macaydia

Speaking of speaking, without our developed languages and written word, humans might not be the King of the Beasts. Even with thought.

Still, we are not as intelligent as an octopus.

I would have an Octopus in charge any day than most politicians.
They are a amazingly intelligent and would get given AI a run for it's money.
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Who came first us or them?

We are just squatters really. And act as though we are.By ruining their beautiful home
home.



and they should evict us from their planet.

Macaydia

Just released: "A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough". 2026.

I was very moved by this. Have you seen this? In my humble opinion, it is his best film.

David says, there is something in the eyes of the gorilla that is not just deep but “fills me with a sense of wonder. And fear. But not a fear of them. A fear that I, we........ may have missed something."

Going right back to the OP.

Animals don't think in that way, humans are just another animal competing for territory or food, we kill the ones we need to for food or space in exactly the same way that other animals do, they just don't have a conscience about it.

Population in Africa is growing so they kill the lions because they are dangerous and elephants because they destroy everything. So now those are now almost all confined to national parks, where over population means they have to be culled in many places. In the UK we exterminated all the wild animals that competed with us centuries ago, now we just share with the ones we like.

Interesting comment, Davis49 I hadnt really thought about all of the animals that used to poplate the British Isles.

In case you might have missed one, here is a list of the last two decades:

Wild London (2026)
A Gorilla Story (2026)
Ocean (2025)
Secret Lives of Orangutans (2024) Mammals (2024)
Asia (2024)
Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster (2024)
Wonder of Song (2022)
Prehistoric Planet (2022)
A Perfect Planet (2021)
Life in Colour (2021)
Breaking Boundaries (2021)
A Life on Our Planet (2020)
Extinction: The Facts (2020)
Seven Worlds, One Planet (2019).
Dynasties (2018)
Blue Planet II (2017)
Planet Earth II (2016)
The Hunt (2015)
Life Story (2014)
Africa (2013)
Frozen Planet (2011)
First Life (2010)
Life (2009)
Life in Cold Blood (2008)
Planet Earth (2006).

A Gorilla Story is my favorite but I have yet to see Wild London.