I wonder if there's an implication that intelligence is being used to mean things that require effortful conscious thought for us.

Imagine a species that has very quick minds but less spacial sense than we do. They can catch and throw accurately, but only by thinking as they do it. They would see baseball as much more evidence of intelligence than we do.

Or a species with much more innate mathematical and logical ability than we have-- they might put geometry on the same level that we put crows' ability to count.

Is a beehive evidence of intelligence? How about an international financial system?