Have you ever wondered why humans have this curious capacity for learning and exploration? Well I can safely say it wasn't through divine intervention. Strangely and almost ironically this sort of behaviour spawned from our surprisingly low intelligence. At birth many animals in the animal kingdom learn how to walk, swim or climb with in a couple of minutes. The amount of brain power and coordination is astounding to accomplish such a feat, specially since none of these muscles or nervous pathways have been used before consciously. This sadly makes humans look like quadraplegic at the Olympics. Granted babies do know how to marginally swim at birth but as fortune would have it babies are naturally buoyant. Which makes use look somewhat competent in this fiercely competitive world. However, this minor victory does not compensate for this next mockery to natural law. Conception, fundamentally it's not overly complicated but consider if you will how this is something taught to us. Not innately understood as many would assume because once they have the answer it seems so obvious. For humans it's not, because there are still primitive cultures in our world that do not understand this concept and feel sex has nothing to do with conception. This is a good indication that when we were primitive we were mostly likely equally stupid. Animals again, understand this concept far better than we ever could. Not only do they understand intuitively how making babies works. They also know which babies are theirs, an ability obviously lacking in any human unless the distinction is grossly evident. This kind of understanding is displayed in the animal’s behaviour. Consider a lion taking over the pack; they will, after killing the alpha male, bite the heads off all the cubes to assure that his blood line rains supreme. Not only that but a male can tell when a female has been fertilized by someone other than himself; we don't have a clue until we walk in on the act. Not exactly the kind of behaviour the most advanced and dominant creature on the planet should display if you ask me. This last one is a little interesting and leaves me thinking just how many of us died to figure it out. We don't know what foods are safe for us to eat as infants, a no brainer in the animal kingdom. Funny isn't, we think of complex things like duality of light and how fast it travels, but safe food is just out of our grasp. This is why we have such good memories, because we'll remember what happened to Freddy when he ate the red berries. Oh well, I guess this was our way of adapting to our short-comings. The animal kingdom may be smart and more evolved than ourselves, but we have on thing they don't. We don't care if we fuck up the environment, we need to explore and die so we know what's safe and what's not. We aren't afraid of the unknown, sticking our finger in a power outlet is a good idea until we get hurt. Eating the things under the sink don't look so scary, nor putting large objects up your nose. We aren't that smart to fear the unknown, we jump right in it before we're afraid of it.