Card of the Day - 2022-05-19

This code is from our British Trade Index part three, published in 1986.

The card is entitled “The Mighty Brain” and the text tells us that “Man, alone in the animal kingdom, can move fast over land and water, and through the air, can protect himself and hunt successfully, farm, make tools, navigate and use sonar.. yet he is not physically adapted .. he can do them only because he is far cleverer than any other animal and can use his large brain to invent machines...”

I'm not sure I agree with this, as animals can do all of these things, and it’s all a bit too masculine for me. Then there are the many videos of animals using tools of their own making to solve complex problems. However animals seldom band together with their tools and wage war on other animals. In this respect man is truly above.