"Besides," said the King of the Shrews, "the purpose of this summit 
conference is to decide which of our kingdoms shall eat which dinosaur, and we 
do not suppose that the King of the Dinosaurs, even if there were such a thing, 
would be able to participate constructively." Mammals always talked this way 
to show off their oversize brains—which were basically the same as ours, 
but burdened with a lot of useless extra business on top—useless, I 
should say, but darn tasty.