Are humans higher life forms than animals?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I don see why having language makes you a superior species.

Language gives us the ability to utilize knowledge well beyond each individual's personal experience in both time and space.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I don see why having language makes you a superior species.

Language gives us the ability to utilize knowledge well beyond each individual's personal experience in both time and space.

And being a sperm whale gives you the ability to dive three kilometers below the ocean unaided and devour giant squid. Are they superior to humans because they can do that and we can't?

If I took the libertarian POV in which individual self-sufficiency is all that matters, then I would admit that they are.  However despite the fact that libertarians despise the fact, man is a social animal.  Language is the glue that binds us together and enabled us to go even deeper than the sperm whales and to acquire giant squid for ourselves to devour if we wish, so if sperm whales are superior, it's not because of that. That's the problem with libertarianism. It totally ignores how functional human societies work.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

You seem to misunderstand as libertarianism has absolutely nothing to do with my argument.

Actually, it does.  Your entire reply was that because individually we're nothing special, we can't consider ourselves to be superior.  Whereas, what makes us superior is our ability to form large groups of cooperating individuals.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

You seem to misunderstand as libertarianism has absolutely nothing to do with my argument.

Actually, it does.  Your entire reply was that because individually we're nothing special, we can't consider ourselves to be superior.  Whereas, what makes us superior is our ability to form large groups of cooperating individuals.

By that standard ants, bees, and termites are superior to us, as they not only form large groups but cooperate and coordinate much better than we do.

Not really.  The so-called social insects are examples of multicorporeal animals rather than social animals.  Unlike humans, you don't find individual ants, bees, or termites leaving one group and joining another.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Why would elephants have human-shaped gods? 

For much the same reasons as why some humans have elephant-shaped gods?