other intelligent species

Only those life forms haven't established worldwide governmental organizations, and if we ever were presented with a species that posed a threat to our dominance, we'd be much more likely to stamp it out than to accept it.

If you doubt me on this, then ask yourself what you'd do if you were to wake up one night and find a wild animal in your home. You wouldn't try to accept it or reason with it, you'd try to get it out of your home by any means possible, and as an intelligent human, you'd succeed.

We've evolved beyond that point that other species can stand up to us. We are in control.

All that is correct for planet earth, but there might be civilizations so far advanced when compared to ours that New York City or Philadelphia might be thought of as an antheap

All that is correct for planet earth, but there might be civilizations so far advanced when compared to ours that New York City or Philadelphia might be thought of as an antheap

Only our large brains and hands with an apposing thumb separates us from the higher life forms such as apes and wales.

Put the most powerful human naked in a cage with a grizzly bear and you will see is as a funny puny little naked ape unable to defend itself