What I don't get is why in every case, even of that of despicable behaviour (@ cola) some folks still insist that human life is supreme above all others.
We humans are doing a great job of slowly destroying ourselves as well as many other species, animal and plant alike. Humans are capable of great genocide against ourselves, all for the sake of human ego. While humans are capable of doing great good, the great good which is done is nearly almost always aimed at undoing the evils other humans have perpetrated!
Aniamls are devoid of the ability to inflict the immeasurable degree of suffering which of humans insist on inflicting on living creatures -human and nonhuman- every single day, either for money or ego or both. Our intelligence for developing technical gadgets, language and awarenesses are completely worthless when used for destructive purposes- which our race has been insisting on doing on the grandest of scales possible since anyone can remember, and continues to this very day. And that is just the flat truth about ourselves- Face It!!! So why, I ask you- are non-human animals always considered inferior in your eyes? If we had real brains -and if we could get around our own egos- we could actually learn something from them.