I don’t think there’s any question that animals vary in their degree of intelligence, even within a given species. This morning, after #2, I was wondering how smart the smartest ant in earths history really was. Smart enough to outwit a spider around the base of a can of pop by keeping on the opposite side, and then doubling back, like in tag? Or did the smartest deer ever shit on someone sleeping under the stars, for a laugh? Right on their chest maybe. Very very quietly. From intelligence. Or what about the smartest elephant. Did it believe in itself the way a all-star athlete does? Maybe luring in a couple lions, feigning injury on the ground, having a trunk full of thick mud water, and then spraying a lion right in the face then maybe crushing one of them too. Only time will tell. or rather, nothing will ever tell.