And getting eaten by birds. All life in nature (except of top predators like us) is harsh, brutal, and short.
On a side note, I get the impression most people just don't have a gut instinct for just how awful natural life is like for the most part
>They mind it about as much as we do, judging by how hard they try to avoid it
If there's an example of something trying hard to avoid it that's clearly incapable of minding anything, then you cannot establish a certain link between the capacity of minding it and trying to avoid it