I mean, animals are exploited by other animals all the time... The relationships can be mutually beneficial though or at least commensal (one species benefits while the other neither benefits nor is harmed)

There are wasps that mimic bees and take over their hives for their own breeding purposes.

Some prairie dogs use bird calls as a predator warning system, which the bird exploits to steal the prairie dog's food.

Cuckoo birds lay their eggs in the nests of other birds to be raised by them

Some ants farm aphids for their sugary secretions

People were able to live side by side with so many animals over millennia without destroying entire populations. So I'd say that humans using animals instead of machines can be quite solarpunk.

[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 1 points 17 minutes ago

I haven't seen the video yet. Solarpunk imagines a future where machines serve humans and animals and not the other way around. Animals have a role of mutually beneficial collaboration but not of unilateral exploitation by humanity. Humanity finally becomes what it should be: a responsible custodian of planet Earth and understands and studies the needs and wants of all beings that live on it.