“Let the waters produce living creatures and birds that fly over the earth and over the surface of the rachea of the Shamahin” Genesis 1:20
What it tells us here is that birds or species of living beings were created. When he creates man he creates a “nefesh chaiai” and it is exactly the same word that is used for all of these living creatures.
The Bible does not talk about animals, it talks about nefesh chaiai.
We are different in species, but we are both living creatures.
Blessings beloved
Ana Mendez Ferrell