Research Program / Claims / animal-consciousness-8

Animals regulate their own birth and death; when survival quality is severely distorted, they deliberately refrain from reproduction, actively migrate under natural conditions, and regulate the timing of death.

动物会调节自身出生与死亡，在生存品质严重扭曲时故意不繁衍，自然状态下主动迁徙并调节死亡时机。

Concept animal consciousness · Domain Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics · testable prediction · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status contested · ★ fundable

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Adjudicating experiment

Mechanisms and intention were studied separately: approximately 2000 nematodes across three batches underwent food-amount × temperature × sensory-pathway genotype experiments over 3–6 months, measuring lifespan, reproduction, and activity; simultaneously, approximately 500 wild birds were tracked with markers for over 5 years, with supplementary-feeding randomization, recording reproduction skipping, migration, and death. Additionally, a reward-revaluation task with free choice of breeding location was set, controlling for reproductive capacity and nutrition. Lifespan changes or cessation of reproduction can only support plasticity and cannot alone adjudicate intentional choice of death.