While animals are not as complex as humans are at thought,they do posses that capability, ever watch a cat hesitating at making a leap? Think it might be thinking, can I make this jump? As for escaping danger,they are not any less intelligent than you or I ,they are looking for the safest fastest way out. Now for a little story we had a cat a few years back,that would use her claws on us and the couch a little to much,so we would take the nail clippers and nip the tips off,didn’t hurt her and we bled less,well as time goes by the nail clippers kept vanishing,the wife and I didn’t think much about it and just blamed each other for not putting them back, a short time later the wife had to move the couch to clean under it, and all five pairs of nail clippers where there in a neat pile,now you tell me animals don’t think. Now another story was at a friends house and his dog slapped this cotton rope in my lap,it was a pull toy,the dog had two of these toys they looked the same,all I said to the dog was Aw Jake I wanted the other one,and continued to talk with my friend 2 minutes later the dog slapped the other cotton rope in my lap and I know it was the other one because the first one was still at my feet,and you say animals don’t think?