We human beings are a rare breed indeed. We’ve gone to space, erected skyscrapers, and more. At the end of the day, though, we’re still animals, which means we have a lot more in common with the rest of the kingdom than we sometimes care to admit.

Dominic Monaghan — the actor who starred as Charlie in “Lost” and as Merry the Hobbit in “Lord of the Rings” — has turned his passion for creatures into a career via Travel Channel’s “Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan” and transformed his own habitat into a full-on wilderness area with unusual pets. His current housemates: two lizards, two spiders and one baby praying mantis. “We are all part of the animal kingdom,” he tells The Post. “We share behavioral traits with animals in the same way they share behavioral traits with us.”

Animal Planet’s Dave Salmoni agrees, saying “all of the animals that are considered to be the most intellectual have real, comparable problems as us” like heartache, psychosis, and even celebrating downtime with a spirited beverage (or two or six).

Bearing in mind that animals that act “human-like” aren’t any more or less important than others who don’t, here are a few amazing examples of those creatures which are very clearly bridging the invisible divide that we people have mentally constructed between ourselves and the rest of the animal kingdom.