Fully animal knowing

Do animals have intellect? I don’t know or not really sure but I am of the opinion that animals do have intelligence: the dog recognizes his master, the elephant remembers his family. A dolphin likes to be around humans they are playful, a seal knows to spin a ball on his nose.

A cat robs food because he is hungry, a man too robs, the cat is punished the man is put behind bars. Cat does not rob again or is careful while robbing. The man too shows a similar behaviour. The man uses his reason what does the cat use? Is it instinct? Is It not that we human beings too learn or use our instinct. We may again defend this age old arguments saying that we have reason we are superior to animals. I am not saying that we and animals are at the same level. I would like to think that they too are intelligent but we are unable to understand them. We are unable to understand them because we think about animals the way we human beings think and not the way animals think about animals.

Is it only instinct that the animals use or is it something more ???????