There is still some evolutionary chauvinism when it comes to assumptions of animal intelligence as "distance from humanity" as other counterexamples prove them

There is still some evolutionary chauvinism when it comes to assumptions of animal intelligence as "distance from humanity" as other counterexamples prove them wrong already. Reptilian brain crap which seems based on superficial shape when we really should know better now given evidence sitting in front of us. It doesn't really hold. Sheep are infamously too dumb to live unassisted perhaps owing to overbreeding for docility. Meanwhile cephalopods are capable of opening jars and get up to mischief like getting out of their tank and shorting out light fixtures when bored and I have observed hermit crabs transmitting behavior socially ("punching" instead of pinching with their larger claw) and figuring out how to rotate an improperly secured lid on its axis.