Who's more intelligent a rocket scientist or a lizard?
Well it's a matter of perspective. I'll grant you that a lizard is less likely to design a spaceship capable of inter stellar flight, but if you put that same rocket scientist in the desert, I know who my money would be on to survive the longest, the point being that the lizard has exactly the right level of skills and knowledge that it requires for its particular environment.
Read the rest of Colin's article, Don't Be a Networking Lizard, on the UK & Ireland blog.