I agree with this! Maybe US citizens should set a fox as their president! It would be more wisely ruled then.

It really depends on how you judge being smart. Imagine if you have wings instead of arms and hands, and a beak instead of a mouth. What would you be able to achieve as an organic entity? I’m not sure there’s an easy answer on this. I think some animals are smarter than humans, but they just have different bodies, so that’s not a fair comparaison to judge on what the human specy has achieved as a whole.