Pros And Cons Of Being From The Animal Kingdom

People often refuse the idea of being from the animal kingdom to remove themselves from nature in order to justify their actions. Its believed that humans are not part of the animal kingdom because simply we have rational thinking and free will which animals don't have. Moreover, we have conscious that animals don't have, things that makes humans unique and characteristics that animals don't have or have different, according to science, things like Upright Posture, nakedness, hands, Brain size, clothing, fire, blushing, long childhood and mostly what really set us apart is our continuos and intelligence to evolve. These unique characteristics remove us from the animal kingdom. However this is not true. These characteristics make us unique and special but don't set us apart from the animal kingdom.
There are abilities that animals have that we don't have such as infrared vision, the ability to fly and much more. But we don't exclude them form the animal kingdom because they have abilities that we or other animals don't have. According to science there are animals that have lesser levels of intelligence. Based on that, why should just one ability that some other animals do seem to have as well, be removed from the animal kingdom when we have everything else in common with them? Really, though, we consider ourselves different from animals the same way we consider family members different from strangers. We do have minds that let us decide what we want to be, and that is one of the things that does make us special from all animals but that doesn't make us divorced from our family, the animal kingdom. The most you can say is that us humans are currently the smartest living members of the