But by how much? I just read a story about dogs taking the subway to scavenging grounds during the day, then going back to the suburbs for shelter at night.
I also heard a story about crows. One was given a test: A small bucket of food was placed in a tube, and several items were left lying around. Within one minute, the crow bent a pipe cleaner and used it to fish out the bucket.
Both of these stories make me think there are people I've met who couldn't figure this out. We like to think of ourselves as the smartest out there, but animals have solved problems we have trouble with (like turtles migrating across thousands of miles of ocean to a tiny island by magnetic fields alone). What is the net value of the intelligence/skills they have that we don't? Sure, as a race we can do things they can't, however, is there some serious overlap?
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