Not really.. Put a human in water.. they will learn to swim.. put a human in the dessert they can find a way to maintain life...
No animals don't change tactics.. they might change locations due to a lack of food but wolves and cats do not change TACTICS... They still hunt the same way. Name one animal that has changed Tactics... If an Eagle cant find food is it gonna stop using the air?
Your example makes no sense.. If the student already knows the answer.. Then Yes for that question he would be smarter.. But what makes a person intelligent is having the ability to find those answers... Because an animal is born with fur to keep it warm doesn't make it intelligent. (Thats like saying because a person is tall they are smarter because they can reach the top shelf.) It is a great ability for it to have but Humans are smart enough that they can create that ability... and go beyond it..
they can learn to swim but they cannot survive the sharks.
you will be surprised. even crows do. e.g based on human environments they throw nuts on the street and wait for cars to cut them open. aka changing of tactics.
you will regret have of what you wrote after watching the video
But a human in the water that didn't learn how to swim and he will drown. Put a human in a desert where he has not learned how to survive he will die. There is no human that holds the knowledge of the whole species. We evolve and adapt just like animals, we are the same only we seem to be able to put our capacities to cruel use. We create answers to complex problems that create increasingly more complex problems. Humans still die on a daily basis. All over the world people are dying because they haven't learned or predicted things that think they feel they could have. Humans commit suicide, they die in wars, through genocides, they die of hunger, through torture, because of love or hate. If you look at human behaviour on a individual level, we are utterly silly and laughably stupid, which is fine because it is fun and we like it. It doesn't make us 'smarter' than animals. We haven't learned how to overcome death in any way. Would you sacrifice anything for the survival of the species? Honestly? What would that mean for a species that calls itself human. If being smart is our purpose, but there is no meaning to it, why would we want it anyway? So if being smart is what we aim for without any purpose we are just doing things in a more complex way. Random complex activity is not the same as being smart.