User blog comment:Songflower/Essay: Could the Redwall Books have really happened?/@comment-67.142.162.29-20090928175916

III don't think so. If they were intelligent but not NEAR as intelligent as humans they probly would have prospered like they are now and still be as smart to this day. But then, modern animals aren't so bright and I don't recall evolution making things dumber. Therefore, the only explaination is that it didn't happen or that everything gets dumber as time goes on. And plots could have only taken place like in the books by some crazy chance or coincidence.