Cunning & deception run deep; within the universal fabric, of the living universe.
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I am convinced that each animal has many unique and complex senses and abilities, that humans either don’t have, or that have been suppressed (and some of which can be reawakened with some effort).
And, yes, the predatory ones do have cunning and deception abilities – just like humans who prey on others. (I find it curious, though, that the mainstream tend to focus on those predatory abilities, and de-emphasize the vast array of other abilities. It’s actually something that has puzzled, as well as irritated, me for a good while. With this emphasis on predatation of some animals, most people think that animals are not only stupid, not being aware of the other array of intelligences, but also dangerous.)
I love how Jeffrey Moussaieff Mason suggests that his dog’s bark is perhaps also some kind of “tool”.
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I agree.
“They” have their “precious” narrative[s], that knows no alternative[s].
They love their “kill, or be killed” mantra.
Cooperation is verboden!
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Also fishes seem to make tools. Dr. (PhD) Jonathan Balcolmbe’s book What a Fish Knows describes how fishes have complex societies, teach their young, and use tools. Our killing culture teaches us mostly about killing fish, but not very much about how they actually live, or what we could learn from them if we simply watched them, and commune with them peaceably.
Book description (from Dr. Balcolmbe’s web site):
What a Fish Knows draws on the latest science to present a fresh look at these remarkable creatures in all their breathtaking diversity and beauty. Fishes conduct elaborate courtship rituals and develop lifelong bonds with shoalmates.
They also plan, hunt cooperatively, use tools, curry favor, deceive one another, and punish wrongdoers. We may imagine that fishes lead simple, fleeting lives―a mode of existence that boils down to a place on the food chain, rote spawning, and lots of aimless swimming. But, as Balcombe demonstrates, the truth is far richer and more complex, worthy of the grandest social novel.
Highlighting breakthrough discoveries from fish enthusiasts and scientists around the world and pondering his own encounters with fishes, Balcombe examines the fascinating means by which fishes gain knowledge of the places they inhabit, from shallow tide pools to the deepest reaches of the ocean.
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Sort of a blue version of: “The-Wood-Wide-Web”.
In that take-off, of the the World Wide Web;
there exits an unseen communication that pervades, thru-out their worlds.
Same in those deep-blue-seas…
An unseen, untouched, unheard world that exists.
If man is searching for alien intelligence…?
He is literally surround, in infused with it…
unknowningly?
[Or, engineered away by “others”? - unknowningly?]
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Yes – “UNKNOWINGLY”
The more one glues oneself to the virtual world, the less one experiences in interacting with the myriad of intelligent life right here, on our beautiful planet.
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There is only One Consciousness & everyone & everything is connected…if we could only LIVE like that!! 
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