This logic is only fair if applied to homo sapiens sapiens animals, too. They aren't any less clever at being short-term efficient at their own long-term peril

This logic is only fair if applied to homo sapiens sapiens animals, too. They aren't any less clever at being short-term efficient at their own long-term peril and any careful observer of California can tell you of the growing threat they pose as carriers of diseases "spread by exposure to urine, saliva, and feces".