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I feel like surviving in your natural habit is a basic thing and not a sign of great intelligence. If you locked a wolf in a house it will die because it doesnt know how to open a fridge.
Animals are very smart, they are extremely capable at surviving in their natural habitat with the means that are given to them. 
People have this bad habit of anthropomorphizing things and holding them to human standards within human contexts.
Wolves for example are incredible hunters, if you were to take away human tools and weapons most humans wouldn't even be able to compete against them.