Tomorrow's Most Intelligent Beings

This generation the primates have the advantage. But after humans are gone, who or what will be the next intelligent life forms? My guess would be raccoons if they don't all die off from disease. Raccoons today are carriers of rabies. If not all of them get it and dies off, they could become the next rulers of the world. They are smart enough, and only a few steps away from learning to use tools, maybe even create their own. It was this ability to make our own tools that made us masters of the planet. Maybe raccoons will do the same? Who really knows? In my book (soon to be on my site) I have raccoons that have longer legs and the ability to stand on their hind legs for long periods, though not necessarily bipedal. The brain is the same size as a human's and just as complex, allowing these animals the ability to solve their own problems.

It has been said that raccoons today are almost as smart as monkeys, and they know how to unlock locks and open doors and windows. Who's to say they won't evolve far enough to start using their own tools? Maybe even make their own? Of course the raccoons of tomorrow will not be totally free from such predators as Deinognathus, they will just know how to deal with them better. Just as our own ancestors learned to battle off such predators as panthers and hyenas. The brains of these animals may also be complex enough to develop their own language, much like how we have made up a language of our own.

Ya know, this gives me a good idea of what family to work on next. I think I'll do that today. I will also have the link up to the cerots, which I actually did many months ago, but never got around to creating a link to on the main page.