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Hyenas Are Intelligent, but They Are Not as Intelligent as Baboons
With hyenas, it's probably easier to observe the actual decision making and the various motivations that are involved. With baboons and humans is probably too much is going on inside the head where we won't be able to measure it if we're observing the system. And therefore you could look at this behavior like this is a breakthrough in evolution about to happen. Yes. That they've discovered something about social structures, communication about cooperation and it might then spill over to other things too in thousands of years in the future.