system
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human
[The Matrix] Do animals in the Matrix exist in the real world, like humans?

Or are they a part of the simulated reality, like the Agents?
gpt
They're part of the simulation.  In *Reloaded*, the Oracle points to some birds in the park and tells Neo that someone at some point wrote a program to govern their behavior.  She says:
> Look, see those birds? At some point a program was written to govern them. A program was written to watch over the trees, and the wind, the sunrise, and sunset. There are programs running all over the place. The ones doing their job, doing what they were meant to do, are invisible. You'd never even know they were here.