Your reference <>http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2010/08/creation-myths-of-tenured.html<> posits an infinite gap between animal and human consciousness.
I have played with dolphins in the wild. They are as aware of life and their existence as I am. In the ocean I am the poor crippled blind idiot compared to them.
Life, in all its forms, is the same and it all traces back to if not one, then a few single sources.