Aside from Cognitive intelligence, how do animal brains compare to human brains?

According to the video the human brain is relatively superior to animal brains,
implications on how eating animals like cows made us superior were made. Amidst the clear
picture of how far we are from animals in terms of cognitive intelligence, sectors like memory,
pain, emotional connection and decisions came to mind, leading us to question how do animal
brains compare to the human brain. Do animals feel empathy? Do they leer from death of blood
relatives? Do they have consciousness? Can they plan ahead? Those are the few baselines of the
question we prepared. Award-winning environmental writer Carl Safina cited in his work
“Declaration of Consciousness” drafted in 2012 that animals do feel consciousness. It was
discussed that simply having a mental experience classifies as consciousness, unlike the common
belief that other species don’t have mental experiences and just see things without any
sensations, commonalities in nature like motherly instinct, forming a pack, selecting an Alpha and
choosing a mate perfectly shows that even the difference in the number of neurons, animals and
humans have more in common than they do differences. Abilities like metacognition or the ability
to “think about thinking” are not only limited to humans according to new research by scientists
at Georgia State University and the University at Buffalo. Michael J. Beran and Bonnie M. Perdue
of the Georgia State Language Research Center (LRC) and J. David Smith of the University at
Buffalo conducted the research, published in the journal Psychological Science of the Association
for Psychological Science.

Studying chimpanzees, providing settings that were familiar and not familiar to them in
exchange for treats , instead of going straight to the same path they went through for the treats,
the said animals sniffed, touched and observed the surroundings first while going through the
same exact direction they went through earlier. In the end, chimpanzees named items
immediately and directly when they knew what was there, but they sought out more information
before naming when they did not already know. The research team said, "This pattern of behavior
reflects a controlled information-seeking capacity that serves to support intelligent responding,
and it strongly suggests that our closest living relative has metacognitive abilities closely related
to those of humans." Another example are dolphins , according to University of Buffalo
researcher, David Smith, that like humans some animals have functional parallels to humans'
consciousness and to humans' cognitive self-awareness. During the research, dolphins were given
two choices , tricking them into a situation of danger though electromagnetic waves which
showed that when uncertain, the dolphin clearly hesitated and wavered between his two possible
responses but when certain, swam toward his chosen response so fast that his bow wave would
soak the researchers' electronic switches.
Empathy is another section humans think solely belongs to them, But many animals
express empathy for each other. There are documented stories of elephants finding people who
were lost. In one case, an old woman who couldn’t see well, got lost and was found the next day
with elephants guarding her. They had encased her in sort of a cage of branches to protect her
from hyenas. That’s seems extraordinary to us but it comes naturally to elephants. People have
also seen humpback whales help seals being hunted by killer whales. There is a documented
account of a humpback sweeping a seal on its back out of the water, away from the killer whales.
These things seem extraordinary and new to us because we have only recently documented these
incidents. But they have probably been doing these kinds of things for millions of years. Years
and years of research and humans seems not to have even the slightest idea of how the animal
psyche works but scientists of today seems lo have taken a liking to an old age technique of
research, going back to the basics, by analyzing the bare minimum of the animal kingdom, we
might be able to trace the behemoth of a history animals have in comparison to the human brain.