"Elephants are wonderful."
They make great chess sets.
"Cows too. And sheep. Wonderful matriarchal societies where males are tolerated, at best."
Dumb cattle whose greatest achievement is being key ingredients in Sunday roasts.
"Gorillas and orangs are completely fabulous as well."
They sit on their arses all day long eating, getting fat and farting.
So powerful and inspiring.
"Pan chimpanzees less so, humans, well, yes, it’s a bit embarrassing really."
You're embarrassed to be human. Pathetic.
"I wince when I think of the brave warrior female hyena. Imagine giving birth thru a pseudo penis? I mean seriously, ouch."
Sounds like some sort of TRA fantasy.
You people are shit at this. You should've pick termites or ants; controlled by a queen, ancient, widespread, highly successful and industrious creatures who build remarkable cities that, if they were scaled up, would dwarf most human efforts. Myrmecology is still informing other branches of human science.
And you pick cattle and corpse-eating scavengers as examples of matriarchy. Says a lot.