Most wild animals lack the cognitive and spatial abilities of octopodes, or match their use of tools. There is a difference between sprinting away and making planned, sapient decisions to escape.

The intelligence of some cephalopods is a controversial topic, as their limb dexterity and brain-to-mass ratios makes them unique, and they have some protection from research in the E.U.

>There is a difference between sprinting away and making planned, sapient decisions to escape.

What's the difference? They're both instinctual responses to a perceived threat.

Now, I'm not saying we should be killing animals indiscriminately. I'm saying that decision has nothing to do with whether the animal knows which direction to flee or how to hide. That's like trying to decide whether to buy a house based on the number in the ones place of its price.