Re: Re: why are preditors more intelegent?
you said,
"I don't think they are the most intelligent; if they were, they would have eaten all their prey already."
That's not true. Prey-predator interactions are density dependent. As prey abundances decrease, predators switch prey or their abundances decrease as well. There are no instances where a predator has hunted a prey to extinction (except humans).
Humans are not predators (evolutionarily they are opportunists, probably a lot of scavenging) but are the most intelligent species on earth. However, predators are, in general, more intelligent than prey. As far as I'm concerned, there are no satisfactory explanations for this.
Good question, though.