stuart,if you don't mind my interruption, from what i've read, "superiority" is dependant upon that species ability to over come another species, or a species ablility to adapt to changing environmental conditions.
first of all, getting back to the scorpion, if you were to tell him in plain english that in one week, he would be thrown into your freezer, and he had better do all that is in his power to prepare, you could not consider him any more forwarned than a mexican who was told the same thing, provided that the mexican only comprehends spanish.
you, and i'm sure many others, have overlooked that although animals don't speak our language, they are cappable of communication within thier species. and to argue the fact that even if the scorpion were definitly aware of his future freezer adventure, he could still not prepare, i only say that scorpions do not think of throwning one another into freezers, it is only humans who would waste thier superior intellect on such an experiment.
enough of scorpions for now though. have you ever considered the lowley cold virus? it can adapt so frequently that we will never be able to block it from our systems. it so constantly mutates that we never get the same one twice. is it our superior, or at least, our equal?
you can bet that if you visit antarctica you will likely be suseptable to a cold, and like wise if you visit the desert, you will at some point pick up a cold virus. and viruses don't even need winter coats.
