Been doing some bedtime reading over the last few months.
Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are? by Frans De Waal.
The first part is very consumer friendly, with lots of animal anecdotes. There is even an honorable mention for Stoffel the honey badger. The last part is quite academic with much discussion about evolutionary cognition.
Evolutionary cognition. I think Douglas Adams said it best. You remember him – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the answer to “The Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything” is 42 (101010B). He claimed super-extraterrestrials made mice the most intelligent followed by dolphins and then, maybe, humans. De Waal claims many creatures [corvids(crows, jays), cephalopod(octopus), cetacea(dolphin, orca), elephantidae(elephant), primate(gorilla, bonobo, chimpanzee) ] are a lot smarter than sapiens(human) give them credit for.