Battling with neighbours could make animals smarter
"We argue that animals also need 'Napoleonic' intelligence, the more Game of Thrones-style sharpness necessary to triumph in a world packed with rival outsiders."
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2020/october/cognitive-evolution-.html
Kennedy is talking nonsense as he has not grasped what strategic intelligence means in the Napoleonic context - more nicking the enemy plans than broad thinking.