Quote Originally Posted by Charis View Post
IMHO, FWIW, while I believe you should be careful about over anthropomorphizing animals, because there are limits to their behaviors, intelligence etc, they are not humans and are not going to act or think about things the way a human would.
Limits to their behaviors and intelligence as compared to what species? Sounds like you have a mighty high opinion of humans!

Keep in mind it isn't always about anthropomorphizing, many of us like them simply because they are NOT human! Different species have different brains, different thoughts, different talents, different ways of perceiving the world, different life experiences. Different does not imply inferior or superior.

Remember snakes have been around a whole lot longer than we have; they have seen plenty of "superior animals" come and go.