Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3542887-20170726025435/@comment-1705775-20170726114123

almost all predators can set traps, as can a great many non-predators.. animals are not stupid, they can be extremely clever and that clever-ness is what confuses people when they watch animals and attribute the clever-ness with sapience or "human-level" intellect.

a chimp can set a trap, use tools and so on but it can not quite grasp "human-level" intellect, thus no matter how clever the chimp is it is not capable of moral agency until it gains "human-level" or beyond intellect.