Yes, it is another kind of activity.
To ask "what animals are thinking" is exactly the same as to ask "what a self-driving car or a smartphone are thinking".
To ask "what animals are thinking" is exactly the same as to ask "what a self-driving car or a smartphone are thinking".
In the huge space of all possible kinds of cognition, humans have only ever occupied the tiniest sliver. There's modes of thought out there that we can't conceive of.