“We’re talking about huge potential for millions of people…” That’s how the trailer for the recent Rise of the Planet of the Apes. This tiny hook raises the seemingly omnipresent question of–why are humans so much more important than any other species? Or, why do we think of ourselves as so superior?

I didn’t really intend to post this time around, but after doing the reading I found myself full of thoughts surrounding anthropomorphism and companion species philosophy. Shouldn’t we all be learning from animals like the “uberpooch”–a dog with a vocabulary of over 200 words?