What animal would gain sentience?

[Mr.Squishy]

I for one welcome our new dolphin overlords

 

[curty129]

squids. no seriously, thay allready have the intelligence of a 5 year old (some species at least).

Surely a five year old is just as intelligent as an adult, only the adult has learned how to apply it's intelligence

Short answer: No.

Long answer: The brain isn't anywhere near "done" at five years of age, I think it's about fully functional around 18-20 years. Kids have smaller heads, you know.

They have small heads because it'd be a pain in the crotch for the mothers to be spurting out children with heads the size of a football. And the heads only get bigger because of all the oxygen they has been eating - Expanding and such D: (We're all balloons really. Water balloons.)

OT: Gingers would take over >:l We have been waiting for this moment. 2012 isn't far off now!

I mean it.

 

[Ph33nix]

Mice, they are actually multidimensional beings who are super intelligent, half a cookie for the reference

 

[2fish]

Cats are evil enslavers of worlds, but I vote for bees, they can fly

 

[bombchu]

Camels, they are actually the smartest animals in the world, they realized if they let people know they are smart they would end up lke dolphins getting tested all the time, did I mention they are the best mathematicians in the world. See, when humans get stuck they use there fingers but camels count numbers from the start!(cookies)

I just finished reading that last night!

But, even though it is so very true, I still wanna say giraffes. When I was a kid I thought about what it'd be like if giraffes were the smart ones instead of us so the idea's stuck.

 

[lwm3398]

HMMM....


Otters.

you saw south park!

I believe there were also some, hmm, LICE?

 

[ma55ter_fett]

Basically whatever species is most flexable with regards to their living enviroment would win out.

So dolphins for the sea

and cockroaches from the land

 

[Biek]

I believe elephants are sentient. They mourn their dead.

 

[Ryan-Phoenixan]

Cats are evil enslavers of worlds, but I vote for bees, they can fly

There was a book I remember reading that stated that cats could teleport anywhere at will.

"Think about it. You ever have a cat visit you expectantly? And you could have sworn that the door was closed?"

 

[shotgunbob]

Crab People

 

[Elcaro]

Cats, and I'll explian how, incase no one has heard this certain evolution theory,

In the begining there where 2 little cells, they mated and had many offspring. Those offspring mated and incested each other till the horrible mutated monster thing that they had turned into crawled out of the muck. Eventually that became the monkey like thing that inbred(inbreeded?) itself into humans(Adam and Eve were monkeys in trees, then their children lost the fur, stood upright, and stayed on the ground).
And through inbreeding I have noticed more and more cats gaining thumbs. So it's only a matter of time before they learn to use said thumbs to kill all of the dogs, and rule after us.

So yeah, my money is on the cats. But you didn't need me to tell you that.

 

[Remleiz]

Well, it's bound to be a carnivorus or at least omnivorus species, as being a hunter/predator needs more intelligence then eating grass.

For a terestrial species, im gonna go with cats.
Aquatic species, again, one for the squids

 

[TheLefty]

Pigs.

Cookie for who knows what I mean.

Is a cue towards animal farm?

I'd go with chimpanzees or some other primate. One primate already took over the world why can't another. Though after reading comments dolphins do have a decent poll behind them.

 

[Red Pawn]

Bats, I think. Anyone watch Primeval?
Or perhaps the squid. ("HURRAY FOR ZOIDBERG.")

 

[IxionIndustries]

It's the ants, man... THE FUCKING ANTS!
They're already forming a super-colony... It's only a matter of time before they invade!

....I need to stop watching Animal Planet..

 

[lwm3398]

They must really like us if they let us eat them for lunch XD

They have respawn technology, obviously.

Also, when the inevitable Grey Assault comes in the distant future, India will be the first to be saved.

 

[lwm3398]

....I need to stop watching animal planet.

I need to stop reading Cracked...

 

[lwm3398]

You mean like Redwall?

I guess, except there would be other cultures, not just Dark Ages England.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

Republicans I'd have to say dolphins, octopi or squid, though I think it would be really interesting to see panda bears like that.