Which animals kills most humans?

Anyone that has never observed their dog having a happy dream or a scary dream, isn't paying enough attention to their dog. The sounds they make and the movements they display are truly amazing and if you can't sense the nature of their dream from those cues, you need to evaluate your own humanity and how you relate to other creatures around you that may be more sentient than you realize. lol

To think that your dog is not totally capable of understand exactly what a wide range of words means - even when strung into a simple sentence is just too difficult for me to fathom. Spend 14 years alone with a dog 24/7 and speak to it on a daily basis as you would any person (Yes, many of us that live alone do that, though few will admit to it). I can guarantee you that if your dog were able to speak it would be able to carry on a pretty good conversation, probably that of a 3 or 4 year old human. This has nothing to do with anthropomorphizing your animal. Nothing at all.

When I say, "Do you want to go see, everybody?" The dog knows 'you-want-go-people?' - with a strong understanding of the questioning nature of the tone used. About the same as a 4 year old human, I'd say. My favorite thing is when I'll ask the dog a question and she doesn''t quite get it. She'll cock her head to the side and look at me quizzically. I'll repeat the question a little slower and she'll immediately give the expected response.

Dogs. Almost capable of making me believe in a God!

Cheers. - Frank

There's little doubt in my mind that many animals are sentient. You mentioned cows ... it's not very different with chickens. When there's a predator around, the roosters will call to the entire flock and that call means ... head for the bushes or the coop ... and they do. When a hen is in danger (and this could be something silly like just me trying to remove it from somewhere where it got trapped), it signals an alarm and then the roosters, if they are free, come to attack whatever is bothering the hen, even at their own risk. The same goes for hens protecting their chicks.

They recognize me and mostly trust me (unless I touch a hen in a way that the rooster doesn't understand why I am doing it).

So, we've got recognition of certain humans, trust, suspicion, protective even if their own life is in jeopardy, rivalry between roosters, plus, when humans interact with chickens a lot, they appear to be very fond of the humans, sitting in their lap, following them everywhere, etc.

Then there's dogs ... does anybody really doubt that there's a huge range of feelings and emotions and relationships between dogs and humans and dogs and other animals. Are they self aware? They sure seem to be to me. When you see a dog, or any other animal mistreated, it's not difficult to see pain and unhappiness. When you see animals treated well, it's not difficult to see them comfortable and acting happy. Dogs in particular have behavior that is attributed to them being happy, such as wagging their tails, etc. They get excited when their favorite humans come back from some place or when it's apparent that they're going to get a walk, etc.

There's stories of dolphins rescuing people in the water, apes protecting children, and all kinds of stories that indicate animals have an awareness and understanding not only of themselves, but others. Just because humans can't get inside the minds of animals so can't completely understand them, does not mean that they aren't sentient beings, and as such, deserve to be treated humanely.

Kinda curious, how do you know that whales or any creature for that matter
cant do complicated math?