13th March 2004, 9:55 PM
No, WE are the smartest, then dolphins, then apes. Poachers need to be hunting them instead of stupider animals like the elephant. I wouldn't put any of those animals as being as smart as a 3 or 4 year old kid though. They can play video games at that age and talk, and CREATE.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)