Of course animals are intelligent, how could they not be?

Natural selection rewards survival and reproduction - animals are not brainless automata. Studies show primates with a wide ability to grasp English, parrots with thousands of words of spoken vocabulary, and octopus that react to puzzles and intelligence tests.

Now, bearing in mind that they are therefore communicating to us in OUR language better than any human has managed to communicate in theirs!

People that think anything else (animal or human) is subhuman and has no dignity, soul or rights are a great part of the reason the world is in the mess that it is !!