Nope ... there is really no difference. We just happen to be on the top of the intelligence hierarchy. Except for "thinking", anything you pick, there is at least one animal that can do it better than us. We just happen to be better than all the rest in thinking, analyzing, learning, problem solving, communicating, memorizing, philosophizing, conceptualizing, recognizing, and a whole bunch of other -ing's, that are a side-effect of our superior brains.