In fact, yes, I do consider myself and other humans superior to other animals because of our intelligence, precisely because our intelligence is more than an aptitude at reacting and learning from past mistakes, but a creative, inventive intelligence that allows us to make the world what we want it to be. Bad example with the livestock. You put a cow out in the wild, it is food, a pig too. They have nowhere near the survivability that we do, in general, either, because you take the cow of a pasture and its pretty well screwed.
I don't enjoy people putting animals on some pedestal above us as more natural or better adapted or whatever, especially when coming, like you are, from an evolutionary perspective, because if you really wanna get darwinistic, those animals that we've subjugated and made extinct weren't meant to survive and lost out of nature by their own shortcoming and nothing that we have done.
The sheer fact that humans can decide to save or obliterate a species is telling enough that we have mastery beyond the animals in their habitat. What you're saying is tantamount to having an archer that can hit the bullseye with his equipment, and taking that away and telling him/her to throw the arrow instead and saying they aren't good at archery. You give humans all of their tools, you give animals all of their instinct and abilities; humans win.