Actually some of it is co-inidental, or through natural selection, animals have evolved to the best body shapes, etc. that suit their environment, we therefore creates a machine which best suits their environment, the enviroment being the same will mean the machine and animals will look simular (but not exactly anyway, like how birds wings are much different from planes wings), and at best, we were inspired by what was around us, by using our intelligence.
I don't think it's so much as Hobo winning the thread, as Stranger's Maid continually loosing. :P But he is right of course.
Oh, and it is our intelligence, and how we work together, so of course, if a man was thrown into the ocean or jungle (which isn't the modern man's natural environment anyway, we've adapted to a level where we are suited to our own environment) he is going to die pretty soon, intelligence of not, give him a group, and there's a much bigger chance of the group survivng, give them their environment, and they will thrive.
I orignally thought that as humanity increases in power, etc. the average man is getting weaker, and dumber, because of how dependant we are on others, but realy, that's how we've always been, it's just gone to a much larger degree.
Anyway, now I'm going off topic, so I'll end with this. We need to respect the animals, as we share the same planet as them, we are all earthlings (Did I just quote the documentary, oops... :P)
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