Thank you, I really enjoyed this. I suspect that our tendency to view the other as lesser, be it a human or non-human animal, is as "pre-programmed" and biologically based as behaviors considered as such when found in non-humans. http://www.pnas.org/content/108/4/1262.abstract The condescending terms we use for non-human phenomena may be more fitting than fancy labels, like "philosophy" and "morality", that elevate human animals above their majestic non-human relatives. Our view of human intelligence may well be more distorted than our view of non-human varieties. A deeper understanding of ourselves may lie in the realization that "animal intelligence" is a category to which our own intelligence belongs.