predator and prey developing intelligence

I'm considering a situation where, in a certain environment, there are two specially adapted (to the environment) animals, a predator and its prey.

I'd like, for the purposes of a story, for both these species to develop intelligence. This would be to look at how this relationship between predator and prey changes as they evolve intelligence/sentience.

But, on earth at least, intelligent prey species don't seem to occur. But surely intelligence would be a benifit in evading predators? maybe just not the local maxima.

So I'm asking, how much pressure can this prey-predator relationship have on evolving intelligence? I envisage one getting more intelligent, more able to capture or evade the other, and the other having to evolve to compensate.

posted over 7 years ago

princeprince‭

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