how does one determine how smart a specie is

[arcfyre]

How do I determine how smart a specie is? When their foraging is wide spread? When they can see farther? What is a determining factor for this? It would be interesting to know.

[Wood~Ant]

Each ant species has its own individual habits, and the fact that these insects have been on this planet since the age of the dinosaurs makes them rather smart.
A single ant may not be very intelligent, but their colonies act as a single unit which makes most ants behave as one being and like a human brain, or at least a super organism which acts very much like us.

A blind person can be far more intelligent than a sighted person. So it is with ants, as the more advanced species have adapted to living in super constructed nests or to live in hostile environments. Ants have farmers, wage war, enslave other species of ants; and the only other creature that we know of that does the same is humans.
Ants may not have built space ships or made weapons, but the very fact that they were here long before we came along, and would most likely survive long after we died out as a species makes them pretty smart from my point of view.

[arcfyre]

Well said bro well said.