I'd say the bigger question is just because we perceive animal behavior one way mean they perceive it the same?
The "real world" as we define it is heavily based on the 5 physical senses. These senses provide us with our interpretation of the world around us. Our perception is based off energy of some sort, whether it's light waves or sound waves or our electrons bouncing off some other electrons, being processed by our brain and our brain creates what we perceive as real.
We hear clicks buzzes and grunts, while perhaps they are having whole conversations on the plight of insects and how man must be stopped from squishing them.
I'm being somewhat facetious but you get what I mean.
On the other side of this discussion, I think animals have intelligence, but intelligence that is necessary for purely survival. However, I think, just like human intelligence, there is a spectrum.
Maybe there are bees who are smart enough to know not to fly into a bag of sugar. Maybe this guy assumed since he could get in, he could get out. Maybe he's just not the smartest bee in the swarm. Maybe he was sentenced to death by the queen and this is the way he chose to die. Maybe that bee just has a really sweet tooth.
As far as animals being more repetitive than humans........have you looked at the way people live? Work, eat, sleep, tv, eat, work, sleep, poop, work, sleep, work, sleep. People who come home and drink/smoke/whatever every night. People who habitually do just about anything. We're all creatures of habit.
The miniscule details part is where I agree with you on. It's our capacity for cognitive thought and processing those thoughts that elevates the human mind as more capable than the brain of most animals. That is, if we make use of that capacity.
Judging from most people, I'm not sure there's as big a gap as we'd like to think.