Is there any evidence that any other species are "pre-intelligence"?
I don't exactly know, what the intelligence is, but i've got an idea what it can be. 
I've read about smth similar before. I suppose, we can measure intelligence with working memory (don't mix with shott-term-mempory)  term (like registers of processor).
There were many experiments that was provided to check how big a working memory of humans and apes.

According to information people got from these experimence, average WM of humans equal to 7, apes - equal to 4 (count of terms subject can manipulate without any significant mistakes). So, apes can be considered as pre-intelligence this way. But anyway it is still controversial question.

You can also google articles like this:  http://www.pnas.org/content/110/Supplement_2/10371.full.pdf