I've been reading the book "Alaska's Wolf Man", which talks some about the behaviors of wolfs. I was impressed with the stories of there intellect and their abi

I've been reading the book "Alaska's Wolf Man", which talks some about the behaviors of wolfs. I was impressed with the stories of there intellect and their ability to work together. Obviously, a lot of the intelligence we see in dogs is inherited instinct from their wolf ancestors. I've also given some thought (based on other reading) about how only a small portion of our brain is responsible for thought, and what we would consider our "self" to be. We are the thinking portion of our brain "riding" on the rest of our animal brain. This explains why willpower alone does not easily change our behavior, our lower-level animal brain is a physical thing (and intelligent in it's own way) and we must reason with it and give it time to adapt in order for us to change our behaviors. (Of course, all this is probably as much imagination as it is science.) Perhaps many animals are more equal in "raw intelligence" than we would think, it's just that their intellect is "riding" on a different set of instincts.