Cats are the greatest animal known to man.

<<>>Ah but the Cheetah skydiving vertically from an airplane will travel just as fast as the human.>> This is doubtful as cats only jump vertically over short distances. If you drop a cat from any given heighth, they remain vertical without any inclination to exercise a nose-dive fall. < > Man, having invented the cell phone and structured speech, will simply call someone on the ground to organize an audience to view his aerial escapades. No one will be in danger and there will even be an emergency response team on standby, which wouldn't be the case with a cheetah. < > Until the cheetah attacks every single person that it can. It is a wild animal. <> You are wrong. "In all situation" man will average the quicker speed than that of the cat. The average between skydiving and running and driving a man-made car = man wins. A cheetah cannot drive and therefore would ruin its average by sitting in a parked car. <<>>Ah but then it is not the human roaring is it? It would be the microphone amplifying that is beating the lion and no longer the human. Through alien devices unknown to man the lion can roar 100x louder than anything ever heard. However once again it would not really be the lion doing the work, it would be the alien device. Thus we must consider how well man can roar by himself as compared to the cheetah.>> Earth's champion of technology is man. So if a man-made invention assists the argument for what constitutes the greatest animal known to man, then achievements must also be factored into this debate. As for the device made by aliens to amplify the lion roar -- that is an achievement that clearly gets attributed to the aliens and not the cats. <<>>Ah but once again is it really the human killing with a squeeze of the trigger. Rather isn't it a human squeezing a trigger and a gun that is killing. A tiger equipped with a flame thrower will be able to kill thousands of people by simply running through downtown New York. This however cannot be attributed to the tiger as it is really no the tiger killing people. A tiger and a human in a 1 on 1 fight naturally will lean "slightly" in the tigers favor.>> A tiger cannot use a flame thrower, as it is unable to do so. Also, a flame thrower is a man-made invention. A tiger could never construct such a weapon. In a one-on-one fight, a human with his choice of man-made invention/weapon could easily kill a tiger with its choice of tiger-made inventions (which obviously do not exist). <<>>Oh really? I challenge you to prove your claim!>> As you've proven yours? With infomation (without links) to a website with information that can be changed at will? I will accept common knowledge from Wikipedia, but never scientific information, as the source data is too easy to manipulate. <> I've never seen a cat draw any pictures. I doubt any of the voters have seen a cat do a police sketch to aid in the aprehension of a criminal, as that is something only man can do. (HA!) <> I do, and so do many others. It may not be politically correct, but some of us do it. But even those of the human race that are lesser than the rest are still greater than cats. < > I agree. < > Yes, so what technological advances have cats, themselves, made to the world? What great works of literature have cats produced? What startling discovers have cats made that have changed the face of the planet? None, none and none. <<>>Ah but only a portion of cats are "dependent" on humans. It was no fault of the cats that humans took a few of their kind, it was a fault of humans thinking cats were greater than themselves. Look back to ancient Egypt where they adored the cat and built statues to it. Plus you say they are dependent but in all reality a cat can leave very easily and become and alley cat. It is because the cat is so intelligent that it stays and uses humans. We pet, adore, feed, water, and worship cats. Perhaps humans are the dependent race?>> This does not include so many of the cats that get lit on fire or tortured in some other fashion. This also does not include the thousands of cats that get destroyed every year, as a result of being unwanted. No, humans are not the dependent race. They are the executioners when the cats' numbers grow out of proportion. No animal controls man's population, so man is clearly the greatest animal on Earth. <<>>Have any proof on this one? You can argue me that humans are obviously the most highly evolved because of all of our technology. However I find myself back on the same point as my last speech. The cats are using us for our technology and we are blindly letting them.>> No, we are using them for companionship and when the need for them expires, so do the cats. < > Of course not, because man is the greatest. Man breeds animals for foods. We allow life to be born for the sole purpose of eating that life. < > Cats are a hobby. A distraction to the monotony of life. That is all. << ...the baby world does not find their peers to be cute.>> Kittens do not find other kittens to be cute either. As for the rest of your kitten argument, (sorry - I'm running out of space) babies are equally curious of puppies, and puppies seek out any attention, so does this make puppies better than kittens in this respect, as they're inclined to engage a baby? < > Humans are graceful (like in ballet), and incredibly efficient at conserving energy (as we are able to manufacture batteries and power plants). < > Exactly, so how can you say that man is a slave to something it hunts? < > No, which is also what makes us the greatest animals, as we are not only the most gentle, but also the most dangerous. < > I've seen many cats torture their prey for hours before they eat it. Hunger wasn't on its mind as the prey died slowly and painfully. < > Cats are territorial and fight because of this often. With your point about cats being like cool hippy parents that are laid back, that would be like me saying that I am the greatest human on the planet because I, too, am laid back. This is not a proof. < > To strive for self-betterment is what leads to greatness, which is why man is the greatest animal known to himself.