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Who cares what birds think? They can't understand the prisoner's dilemma.
Depending on how sentient they're judged to be, utilitarians.
Yes, I'm aware that there's an alternate interpretation of the above sentence. :D
"Understanding the PD" per se is an arbitrary requirement. Recognition of an animal's ethical worth should depend on a less parochial standard, like whether they act on gratefulness / reciprocity / Golden Rule / subjunctive consequences. I would consider it close enough that e.g. the animal does good things for you as a result of you having done good things for it.
I don't know about birds, but domestic cats and dogs definitely meet that standard.
I'm not so much concerned about an animal's "ethical worth", I just don't want anybody force-feeding me in order to eat my liver.
CooperateBots practice cargo cult decision theory. (I probably miss your point, in which case please clarify.)