What is the list of animals from lowest order to highest order?

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2026-02-15 19:40

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"The lowest order are the creatures who are the stupidest (like turkeys and dolphins) and the highest are whales, elephants (can reaninimate infanty elephants) and primates (human, gorilla, chimpanzee, bonobo). For a complete list, google it."

- Frisian

The above is one fairly vague answer to a deceptively complicated question. What ever metric is used to determine the "order" of animals has to be quantified somehow, which in itself is open to massive subjectivity. Is intelligence really the determining factor? Wouldn't resilience be a better measure considering life is all about surviving and intelligence isn't everything?

What about size or weight or lethality or total population numbers?

In science however, animals are ordered basically according to their complexity.

Planarians are the lowest form, then up through sea squirts, worms, cnidarians, arthropods, fish, reptiles, etc... you get it. And for the record, turkeys and dolphins arn't dumb, they are both fairly high order. Humans are the only organism fully cognisant of our impact on the world yet we repeat the same mistakes again and again. A computer is no smarter than its operator, no matter what the contents or capacity of its hard drive.

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