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I don't understand what the peak of intelligence means if that is termites, bees, humans? What about dolphins, dogs, not to mention chimpanzees, other great apes are likely smarter then them, but it will take some clever tests and clever categorization of intelligence to understand their sense.

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The prominence of the peak. Like how Denali is taller than the mountains around it, but Everest is still the tallest.

We're quite close to dolphins and killer whales, so the essence of their intelligence is easier for us to understand, because they are more like us.

Bees, termites, ants, etc. are really interesting because any individual is pretty stupid, but the entire swarm is complex and intelligent.

local maxima, in other words. Humans being the global maximum, on Earth at least.

Wouldn't global maxima simply be local maxima per planet? :)

Unconfirmed but ya likely

I mean, the planet is literally "global"

Tom Scott has a great video on this topic (what counts as a mountain? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8P5a1uqIMw)

Peak meaning relative to evolutionarily nearby organisms, by analogy to mountain peaks

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