Interestingly, I watched a BBC documentary last night about intelligence and problem-solving skills in animals. No elephants entered the room but of the animals that were featured, mainly crows, a distinct pattern emerged. Apparently it's a combination of the ratio between brain size to body mass (the more intelligent animals, us included, have brains up to twice as large as would be necessary just to run the body) and being a social species. It seems that social animals have a greater capacity of learning survival skills from others in the group and such skills baing passed down to successive generations.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
