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Source 1: Are animals smarter than humans?
 * __Americans tend to believe that__ humans are more intelligent than animals.
 * __Many people assumed tha__t human intelligence is far more advanced and relevant than the intelligence of animals.
 * __Common sense seems to dictate that__ humans are the superior race.
 * __The standard way of thinking about__ animal intelligence is that it is not as complex as human intelligence.

Source 2: A Night in a Cage
 * __Michelle Krapf reminds us that__ animals and humans have different ideas of how their lives should be lives.
 * __Michelle Krapf emphasizes that__ animals want to be free and not be restricted by humans.
 * __Michelle Krapf herself writes__ “What if a human spent a night in a cage?”
 * __Michelle Krapf believes that__ most people have not put themselves in the place of an animal, to see what it is like to be one.

Source 3: Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of the Human Mind
 * __You would think that__ because humans and animals share a lot of similarities that intelligence would one, but that is not the case.
 * __The essence of the authors argument is that__ both animals and humans possess intelligence.
 * __The authors claim__ you cannot test an animals intelligence and a humans intelligence in the same way.
 * __The authors remind us that__ it is hard to compare animals and humans.

Source 4: Ants and Us
 * __The speaker reminds us that__ ants and humans have behavioral similarities.
 * __Many people tend to believe that__ ants don’t have an impact on our lives.
 * __ Wilson says, __ “History is almost certainly colony against individual and colony against colony. If group selection is correct, what you would expect to find is an intense human desire to form groups that attack other groups; bands of brothers, teams.”
 * __The author claims that__ Wilson is knowledgeable because of all the time and studying he has devoted to observing ants.