'Man-sheep-dog': inter-species social skills

I started a tagline 'dog-ma' for posts (which have been few, as it happens) reflecting on the experience of having a dog in the household. In relation to that line of reflection I recently came across this interesting article about sheep-dogs and humans. Part of the article points out that this is not just about 2 but 3 species. And the dog seems to be able to 'mind read' sheep to some extent -and perhaps the sheep the dog?
'Man-sheep-dog': inter-species social skills | Neuroanthropology:

The dog was not simply a tool, or merely obedient to a guiding human intelligence; on some level, Whiskey grasped what needed to be done, and Damian had come to count on the dog’s ability to herd, including the dog’s perception of how stressed and liable to flight the sheep were. The key to being an expert dog trialer, then, included the ability, not just to train a dog to herd, but to perceive the dog’s intentions and perceptions, and to anticipate the animal’s next move (as well as those of the sheep).

What interests me in this is not so much the apparent fact that dogs and sheep can anticipate -'read'- the other species and change behaviour accordingly but that the degree of intersubjectivity involved seems to indicate creation is quite deeply community-oriented. This we need to keep in mind beside the 'red in tooth and claw' reading of nature. When we are in 'spacious places' where the stresses of fight, flight and hunger are at bay, there arises a spirit of co-operation and even play. Shades of Maslow's hierarchy? It may be that the right insight about Maslow's idea is actually more fundamentally about the way that creation is ... ?