Are humans superior to animals?

REFLECTION- class 29th July

As the human population grows, multiplying faster than bacteria, airs about human strength and omnipresence plagues a human’s mind. People now believe that they are unstoppable. They teach to the newer generation that no mammal in the world is as clever as they are and thus they have the right to exterminate anything that is below them or tag things as worthy, useless etc. But what really baffles me is how can they think that when they know nothing of world beyond the walls of their body. A human’s perception depends on what he or she can see, hear and feel. What if everything they have the illusion of knowing was wrong? What if they were the only soul in the world and everything else was just a fictional story from their imagination? Perception depends on the individual; no man has ever gone into the soul of a cat or a dog thus how can they conclude that they are better than the animals! There is so much that humans cannot phantom. For example dogs and cats can hear frequencies much higher than the range of humans and elephants hear and speak at such low frequencies that man cannot even hear them. In our limited vision and hearing abilities, is it right to even try and find differences between humans and animals. The truth is that we don’t even know what other species can do beyond just what we think thus with our limited knowledge we cannot term ourselves as superior