Nature of the beast

Humans are animals. As much as we like to think that we're special, in the end we're no different than the monkeys we came from. Watching human and animal behavior lately has really reinforced this for me.

Seeing birds fight for crumbs and the big birds bully the little birds away.
Seeing boy bees chase girl bees to do the deed.
Seeing men and women at bars... need I say more?
Seeing big kids bully little kids.
Seeing 3 boy ducks chase one girl duck, again for some sex.
Seeing a boy giraffe nag the hell out of a girl giraffe until she finally tells him to get it over with.
(A lot of the universe apparently revolves around sex, and around males trying their damndest to get some.)

Then I started thinking... maybe we are unique. Maybe there is something to us. Because we're not going on that same path. The big bully doesn't always, or even frequently, win the crumb anymore. Being bigger and more aggressive doesn't make you the top dog. Look at some of the most successful and powerful people in the world... and they're physically inferior. But the brains... the brains are where evolution is taking a funny little turn.