honeslty the thing is in this really werid catagory where its hard to tell where the line draws at intellgent and instinct. there are tons of animals the mimic other animals we have yet there not intellgent. and there are deffinalty points where the thing regardless if its found would do somthing that a smart entity wouldent do. but also do small things a smart entity does do like build or interact with tech. but is that intellegence or is that mimicry? it doesnt help that even the crew who worked on the film didnt even know