What more than sentience do you need from a species for its intelligence to be recognizable by humans?

Let's go with one assumption: wherever we go in space, we'll be looking for extra-terrestrial life, and if we do find it (and recognize it as alive), we'll always try to learn if it is sentient.

Now what traits does a species need, to be recognized as intelligent by humans, beyond the fact that it is sentient and recognizable as alive by humans?

Differently put, this question could also be: what type of sentient species will we miss out because of our inability to recognize their sentience?

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What more than sentience do you need from a species for its intelligence to be recognizable by humans?

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