Nice info btw and this is very true, animals too have conscious to a certain degree and we shouldn't apply our human conscious's characteristics to all animals.
In fact, Planets and fungus could also have conscious too but in a very different way...(especially fungus as they too breathe O2 and Release CO2 just like any animals)
Funny thing is that I had done a couple shrooms trips and the last time I took about 8g... There was a period I can barely move (can't even open my eyes). I was in a white tunnel and I heard what I believed as "the shroom I ate" was talking to me and thanking me for eating them so they could experience what is like to be a human in their final hours. It also told me that their purpose of life is to finally be eaten by any animals so they could hack into such animals' conscious and experience what is like to be a living being that can see, hear, feel, taste, etc.
In the meantime, it was letting me experiencing the conscious/existence of being a fungus...which is not being able to move, see, hear, taste or sense anything at all, there was nothing but emptiness yet in a very calm way and all you could do is breathe and wait...
...anyway, was very peaceful but then when I got out of it was scary as fuck I urged to hang myself...
All that could just be me tripping lmao...anyhow I dun think I would do it again...
P.S.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141111-plants-have-a-hidden-internet
there are other researches on plants' communication/interaction with its surroundings and possible having "conscious"
If there is a next life, I would like to be a good tree so at least I won't be a drag to the environment or I could be made as the wood trims in the Rolls Royce
(couldn't buy one in this lifetime so at least I could be one in the next :)