Being the most advanced animal on Earth, humans often neglect the fact that we are too classified as animals, along with a multitude of others. People find animals fascinating; we keep many different species as pets and frequent zoos to stare at them as they lay around doing nothing, but nonetheless we find it entertaining. In recent years, a more debatable conversation has sparked about whether animals are conscious beings and capable of complex emotions and tasks. New evidence has been researched, making people change their old views, or sometimes making them stick to their guns even more. Animals have conscious minds that enable them to experience their surroundings in various ways, can think and feel emotions, and can solve problems they face in life. It is obvious that some animals are immensely more advanced than others, humans usually being the primary example. While not every species is on the same playing field in terms of intelligence and ability, animals are discredited as being unintelligent and having no conscious thoughts or abilities, ants being one of those. Ants are actually capable of complex thought, and have feelings. As described in Animal Wise, “Suddenly, their home was open to the elements...rushing to rescue their queen...stroked each other’s antenna...ants were the ‘first non-human animals’ to qualify as teachers…” (Morell). In experiments done by Franks, he displayed how ants reacted when their home was obliterated. Most would think ants would run