Clever Monkeys

Brain size is not the issue. A mouse may have a smaller emotional palette to go with its pea-brain, but it is as perfectly adapted to its role as any creature - any animal, vegetable or mineral, any astronomical 'object' or sub-sub-atomic 'particle', any micro or macro cosmic arrangement of quantum fluff - as complete an expression and divine a manifestation as any 'thing' you care to name or which yet escapes our cumulative and infinitesimal knowledge, including the cleverer monkeys. To our describably limited senses, it exudes 'mouse-ness' in much the same fashion as you or I occupy some sliver of 'humanity' - which is no doubt why we both endlessly try to distance ourselves from or rid our homes and work places of them, and keep ourselves (and to a lesser extent them) entertained in countless laboratories and all sorts of scientific 'experiments'. A mouse has the highest ratio of brain size to body weight of any animal - half again as much as a human, and well over three times that of a dolphin. Consider that, the next time one sets a trap for you.

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