For those that don't read that "other" forum, there is interesting news for anyone who uses the Dahua 5442 S3 series cams and is interested in "animal" alerts.
Up to now, the built in AI on the recent cameras only watched for "People" or "Cars", not animals. Therefore, you would likely be using BI motion with CPAI to filter the motion alerts for animals and whatever else.
But there is now a beta firmware that adds "animals" to the AI in these cameras (IVS rules), and in my tests and others, seems to be working very well to identify animals (and people and cars also). That would allow one to not need "Motion" in BI and CPAI also, if desired. A lot less overhead just using the camera's IVS rules (Onvif) rather than CPAI. The firmware update should be available from Andy (empiretech01.com) soon.