Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate — Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
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Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate abstractions--it is natural to conclude that animals are, on the whole, a lot less intelligent than we are.

— Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
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