Ethological – "soul" in animals

Hello, Your Honor,
The site talks a lot about the mind (consciousness, free choice, morality, etc.) in the light of neuroscience and the methodological problems in drawing philosophical conclusions from observations.
I think the great challenge to the concept of the human "soul" comes from another direction – ethology (animal research). My questions:
1. Does the Rabbi think that methodologically it is possible to construct an experiment that will prove (or at least indicate with a very high probability) that animals have morality?
2. An experiment that would indicate awareness/free choice similar to ours in animals?
If such an experiment is possible and the answers are positive, do they constitute an impossible contradiction to religion? (Strong evidence that biological matter + evolution can lead to a "soul")

References:
Chimpanzee social intelligence: selfishness, altruism, and the mother-infant bond
(I think that the part on deceiving is quite amazing)

Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds, 469-474

Animal Sentience: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Animal Feeling