Animal's reflective practice

I find it hard to agree with the established idea that rationality and reflection distinguish us from animals. It seems to me that animals practice rationality and participate in reflection all the time as the basic skills for their survival. We as humans have learned from animals how to learn experientially and reflect on our experiences. When a little deer is eaten pond side by the tiger, do her fellow deer not reflect on this experience and avoid that pond in the future? Is this not experiential learning, reflection, action and behavioural change in the animal world? Is this not the deer discovering new connections from deep engagement? When we first learned hunting strategies from wolves, part of their animal success comes from learning through experience, reflecting on what worked and didn’t and changing course for the next hunt. I don’t have a cat, but when they sit and look out the window, they really can’t be just a blank slate inside their mind, they must be reflecting on what they see and thinking about the implications and plans to come. It is in our hard-wired animal instincts to learn reflectively and experientially; we just like to pretend there is a difference so we can hold a power and superiority over the animals. Experiential learning may connect us and the wild more neurologically in our DNA than we care to admit. In the animal kingdom, individual learning usually benefits the collective species. I wonder if we can say that about human experiential learning or are we using our learning to destroy ourselves. Someone said to me, that animals aren't reflecting like humans do because they are not developing ethical policies. We can look at any herd, pack, gaggle, grouping of animals or birds and see clearly that their reflective practice does lead to policy based on ethics within their species which changes behaviours and actions resulting in adaptation.