a Life Form is a Life Force?

Fully accepting other life forms as such might imply understanding different expressions of life force as per Nature's specifics and designs.

That construct holds truthful particularly in reference to other modalities of beings or selves that are directed to exist in other than from animal forms. 

Apart from the binary construction or manifestation of life force along the sushumna energy path ways as expressed in terms of ida and pingala channels,

there also exist aside from individuated cellular expressions of micro life force energy, a more diffuse and non-localized expressions or constructs of life force.

The following provide illustrations:

Heather Barnett: What humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime

Slime mold form a map of the Tokyo-area railway system

When the researchers place food at cities on the map, the fungus collaborates, spreading out to map many possible configurations and then dying away to highlight the shortest routes between cities and the most efficient overall system map.