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Being that intelligence implies conscious awareness and sole measure of problem solving ability through conscious reasoning - I think it could be safely argued that neither animal is measurably intelligent. The primary difference I would guess would be the simple fact that the dog has been trained and conditioned to perform an act for a reward and trust the one providing the stimulous. The seagull is trying to eat to survive while avctively avoiding possible threats to its survival and has not been conditioned to act in a way which is unnatural to what it is.
This conversation is like arguing that bees are smarter because they don't respond to a particular stimulus where a dog does.
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