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  I wouldn't call an incorrect opinion unpopular.
context: They also overestimate humans. >
  
  Humans overestimate humans lol >
  
  Not really, we measure their intelligence by seeing what they are capable of doing which are usually things like problem solving and tool use which can indicate high intellect with a few examples of of highly intelligent animals like
  
  Cats
  Dogs
  Pigs
  Elephants
  Corvids
  Parrots
  Octopi
  Other great apes like Chimpanzees
  Racoons
  Dolphins and other cetaceans
  Fringed jumping spider
  
  And perhaps a few more >
  
  Ants dolphins rats >
  
  Added dolphins and thanks >
  
  Oh, primates and elephants. >
  
  ‘smart’ is complicated and nuanced and mostly subjective, and definitely relative. You are an animal. Are you smart? The gulf between humans and other animals only exists culturally, as in we’ve formed it like a religion in the recent few thousand years. >
  
  That has to be the dumbest thing I have heard. >
  
  I mean my guide dog is pretty smart in my opinion. Has saved me from being hit by silent deadly electric cars that make no noise more than once. >
  
  That is a very good dog. And guide dogs are more intelligent than other dogs. But your dog was trained to do it. It didnt figure it out on its own. It was normal that it did that because it's goal was to protect you. >
  
  I mean humans are also trained how to do most things no? Thats called school and parents. >
  
  Lol wtf. There wasn’t just “one guy”. It was tons of people who learnt from each other over 100s of years! >
  
  Same with animals genius… it’s called evolution. >
  
  Not what I’m referring to. Humans write things down and our knowledge is an accumulation of previous people’s findings. Dogs might teach their young pups some stuff, but not as much as humans do. We basically spend our first 20 years just learning about things people figured out before us. >
  
  Rubbish my cat could do a PhD in astrophysics if she wanted to. >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  Definitely unpopular, because you’re incredibly wrong. Oversimplifying a massive topic, as eloquently as you have, may be the very proof of the possibility that humans aren’t the most intelligent living beings on our planet. Would you mind explaining your definition of “great intelligence” is it like the invention smartphones? Im pretty sure the natural world doesn’t waste its time on useless behaviors. 
  I’d honestly be curious to see (without your phone) how well you could navigate a 2500 mile migration from Canada to Central Mexico when compared to a butterfly. Monarchs do it every year. Arguably an insect is more intelligent and resilient in this regard to the vast majority people. Don’t even get me started with birds, sea turtles, whales…. Or even down to more basic forms of life like trees, fungi, viruses, bacteria.
  Human intelligence is not the only, or highest imo, form of intelligence on earth. We’re clearly not doing a great job at figuring out how to exist with nature without destroying it over the past 200,000 years. Intelligence of any species should probably be measured on how quickly they make their habitat uninhabitable and die off. Just because we have an understanding of what we qualify as intelligence (which is mostly hypothesis, theoretics, along with data based conclusions and laws), doesn’t and shouldn’t imply that it’s superior to massive parts of natures functionality of which we have essentially zero understanding or comprehension of. Animals have been here long before us, and likely for long after.
  To debunk your refrigerator theory, just go camping in an active carnivorous predator area with food in your car.. 
  Most predators would get into the fridge eventually…some much faster then others. Have you never been in an area with active wildlife like say, bears, wolves, mountain lion, lynx, fox, coyote, hell even racoons? Bears will straight up open a car door, house door, break through windows, tip dumpsters for any trace of food or trash left inside. Source: myself and everyone who’s been around wildlife at any point throughout recorded humanity.
  Edited for spelling