On average, are scavenger animals smarter than non-scavenger animals of the same type?

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I know that crows are very intelligent as birds go, and I hear rats are pretty smart rodents. Both of these animals are scavengers. There were other examples I heard before noticing what appeared to be a pattern, but I can't recall them at present. Now, I know that not all non-scavengers species are less intelligent than their scavenger relatives, so it would obviously be less of a rule and more of just a general tendency, but would it be an accurate assessment, or am I just seeing patterns where there aren't any?

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I don't know. It seems to me that hunting would take more brains than scavenging.

But then again, would you consider ants scavengers? They're extremely smart and organised. Taking their intelligence collectively I'd say they're the only other animal smarter than humans, besides the obvious.

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I think they would all be the same wouldnt they? To survive in their own way?..

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On average, are scavenger animals smarter than non-scavenger animals of the same type?

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