That's not an understanding of causality and causal mechanisms, which I believe is required for using tools and solving problems. Rats didn't use logic to solve problems, they were just navigating the maze and navigating maze alone, they couldn't solve any other problems using the same universal logic. Logic implies this universality that can be applied to anything.
By logic, I mostly mean this understanding of causality. It seems that great apes even show understanding of causality in social relations, but not say, monkeys do.
Such ignorance... I doubt that you have actually looked into it.
Can you seriously say that this is nothing like human behavior?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6742UPsOO5Y
And this is a video caught on tape, a group of chimpanzees taking down an alpha male that they didn't like: