There was plenty of honest admiration of the orders of animals for each other's prowess. However, one can also imagine these good-natured taunts echoing across the African veldt, as the orders mocked each other's failings:

Primates   to   Felines and Canines:

"You guys would go hungry a lot less if you learned to eat fruit. You just need to work on your color vision, to tell ripe from unripe— and your opposable thumb, to pluck the ripe fruit— and your molars, so you can gently squeeze out the juice and spit out the pits."

Canines   to   Felines and Primates:

"OK, we admit that you guys are good sprinters. But you're gonna need endurance to catch those big, fat, tasty ungulates. If you're not up to an afternoon of dogged loping-after, you're gonna do without!"

Felines   to   Canines and Primates:

"One word, my friends: 'ambush'. Such an elegant way to catch one's dinner, and don't you love the surprised look on their faces! Of course one needs to be ver-r-r-y quiet and calm for a long time, something quite beyond the ability of chattering, yelping, hollering, twitching types like yourselves!"

Felines and Canines   to   Primates:

"All this standing up and peering at things! Are you expecting your dinner to jump up out of the grass and wave their paws at you? 'Here I am, come and get me!'? No, you need to stop and smell the air and then you need to focus your ears— you can focus your ears, can't you?— and listen."

Felines and Primates   to   Canines:

"What do you fellows have against climbing trees? Such tasty morsels to be found up there, especially in birds' nests! And hey–– if you're gonna be a champ, you've gotta look good! Haven't you mutts even heard of grooming?"

Canines and Primates   to   Felines:

"Just what part of teamwork don't you understand?"