[dangus]

Tool using is no real big deal in general. Tool fashioning, the alteration of an object to make it more useful, is. I believe birds have been shown to have fashioned tools, making twigs better fit a hole, so that the bird could better gather bugs.

Now, cows are supposed to be way more dumb than crows and dogs, so this is definitely interesting, but nothing to disrupt the ancient differentiation between animal souls (those capable of movement) from rational souls (those capable of thought processing). And yes, “animal” is an adjective; as a noun, it is a shortening of “animal souls.”

[Jamestown1630]

Something like this seems to speak to an understanding that goes beyond simple ‘tool using’:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NGaUM_OngaY&pp=0gcJCTMBo7VqN5tD

[Jeff Chandler]

animal soul

Soul animal:

[Scrambler Bob]

Now, cows are supposed to be way more dumb than crows and dogs,

and other animals.

But looking around today at the current intellegence level of ‘animals’, the cows are ranking higher than they.