But animals don’t come to earth in a spaceship and sit on the beach and have a conversation and share sandwiches at lunch, he countered. People—and, I suppose, other intelligent species like hers—do that. And civilized species wear clothes. Even the apes in Planet of the Apes wore clothes. She has bags; how hard could it be to figure out how to make pants? And the guards were wearing armor! It didn’t make any sense at all. He sighed and turned his attention back to the book.