I agree with you almost entirely, but language is more than thinking or communication. It's the ability to create an arbitrary number of referents for an arbitrary number of objects, to organize referents into logical categories, to join referents into complex words, to join words into phrases, to join phrases into clauses, to modify words and phrases with logical operators, to create referents without corresponding objects, and so much more. It's the highest tier of complexity in communication and it's what enables us to be so intelligent. It takes hours to train other animals to perform tasks reliably, but with language most training is limited mainly by the transmission speed.
Other animals can understand good. They can understand better. But they can't understand best, for the same reason they can't understand statistics. They don't have the ability to organize their thoughts in that way. They don't have the words. Other apes and cetaceans might be the exception, but no one has been able to get them to demonstrate it clearly and if they are capable it should be a trivial task.
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