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source? genuinely curious
You should try googling mate! Wolves have been observed to hunt with crows (crows locate it, wolves kill it, crows get the leftovers), their coexistence is in fact to the point where crows play with wolf puppies (chasing games and tug of wars have been observed)! Due to this cooperation wolves have evolved and do recognize and treat these members of their packs differently! Which you too can observe if you own a dog, as it does not treat you like another dog! In opposition to cats, who despite also living in colonies do not cooperate with other species nor with each other really (with exemptions to raising their little ones, they supervise each other if the mom and dad goes hunting at the same time). They are not really capable of recognizing other than prey, cat, danger
https://www.petmd.com/dog/pet-lover/can-dogs-tell-difference-between-dogs-and-other-animals
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/140127-cats-pets-animals-nation-dogs-people-science
Edit: @Goodeye8 is lying, he made that quote up! Please use a word search in the source before you take his nonsense ok face value
From the very Nat Geo article you linked:
They might not be able to understand that we're a completely different species but they do understand that we're not your average cat (another evidence of that is that cats generally don't meow between each other but they do meow with humans) and they definitely don't view us as terrible or incompetent. They view us as clumsy because based on how they see the world we are in general pretty clumsy.
Bit off topic but another interesting fact is that if we factor in fine motor skills we're the least clumsiest animal on the planet. Cats have excellent gross motor skills but you don't see them threading a needle. And very few animals could thread a needle because, well for a multitude of reasons but primarily because most animals simply can't get that level of precision out of their limbs or mouth or trunk or whatever they would have to use. But for us that is so easy we don't even question the level of complexity and precision we're showcasing. Gross motor skills looks like it might bring us down but we're actually very adaptive when it comes to gross motor skills (see parkour, rock climbing or just gymnastics). We simply don't spend time developing those skills because most of us never need it. We don't need to climb over fallen trees or crawl under bushes because if a lot of people need to use that route we just pave a road.
Humans having best fine motor skills seems fairly obvious tbf. I've seen the videos of monkeys trying to use a hammer.
I added that part specifically because it's so obvious. It's so obvious we don't even think about all the fine motor movements we can do with excellent precision that no other animal in the world could even do.