Are predators always smarter than their prey?

[thekdog]

A friend and I were having a discussion about predator and prey intelligence levels, he claimed that predators will always have higher intelligence than their prey. I simply couldn't believe that that could be a universal rule so I said I would find a an exclusion to the rule, after a bit of searching I haven't found much information other than crocodiles and sharks being possible candidates. Can you guys help me out here? thanks in advance

[JackBean]

Let me ask you this. Which one you think has higher intelligence - monkeys/apes or big cats?

[thekdog]

monkeys/apes.

[JackBean]

You see, and yet there are big cats which hunt monkeys. The ability to hunt is not based on intelligence, but on your senses, speed, mimics etc.

[Biologist123]

In a preditor prey relationship there is often one preditor and many prey, take for example a coyote and wild rabbits. The rabbits must hide and learn to live in fear of the coyote, but the coyote doesn't have to be smarter than the rabbits because there are so many, and if it misses one, another will more than likely be close by.