Instinctual Behavior Vs Intelligent Decisions

Jon writes: Thus, the issue at hand here seems to be figuring out how we can distinguish between behaviors that are instinctual at their base and behaviors which are merely the manifestations of some form of intelligenceeven if the intelligence itself is innate.

jon writes: Do you have some examples to go with that?

jon writes:How can we use your filter with specific behaviors?If we want to get general, we can simply mark off finding new solutions as 'business as usual' for us H. sapiens and so conclude that there's little novel about it.Why can't we do that?

jar writes: We use our brain, and we learn how to do that.

jar writes: Have you ever been around a child?

Intelligence
As a group, crows show remarkable examples of intelligence. Crows and ravens often score very highly on intelligence tests. Certain species top the avian IQ scale.[9] Wild hooded crows in Israel have learned to use bread crumbs for bait-fishing.[10] Crows will engage in a kind of mid-air jousting, or air-"chicken" to establish pecking order. Crows have been found to engage in feats such as tool use, the ability to hide and store food across seasons, episodic-like memory,[vague] and the ability to use individual experience in predicting the behavior of environmental conspecifics.[11]
One species, the New Caledonian Crow, has also been intensively studied recently because of its ability to manufacture and use its own tools in the day-to-day search for food. These tools include 'knives' cut from stiff leaves and stiff stalks of grass.[12] Another skill involves dropping tough nuts into a trafficked street and waiting for a car to crush them open.[13][14] On October 5, 2007, researchers from the University of Oxford, England presented data acquired by mounting tiny video cameras on the tails of New Caledonian Crows. It turned out that they use a larger variety of tools than previously known, plucking, smoothing, and bending twigs and grass stems to procure a variety of foodstuffs.[15][16] Crows in Queensland, Australia have learned how to eat the toxic cane toad by flipping the cane toad on its back and violently stabbing the throat where the skin is thinner, allowing the crow to access the non-toxic innards; their long beaks ensure that all of the innards can be removed.[17][18]
Recent research suggests that crows have the ability to recognize one individual human from another by facial features.