what is an animal?

Answer 1

Something that is alive and is neither a vegetable or mineral.

Answer 2

In nature, we divide all living things into two kingdoms, plants and animals. We define plants as those organisms or living things that can produce energy by using sunlight, utilize nutrients by absorbing it from the soil, lack movement (some are capable of turning their flowers or closing their leaves but can not move from place to place) and reproduce by asexual reproduction or most commonly by seeds or spores. They lack internal organs and the flow of nutrients and water is regulated by temperature and light. An animal has a different type of cell structure, whereas the plant cell is cellulose, animals have a cell membrane. The higher animals have different cells for different purposes, i.e. blood cells, nerve cells etc. In the animal kingdom, there are many groups of animals that range from the Protista (or the 1st Animals through mammals that are the most complicated of all. There are some life forms that are both like plants and animals and some scientists put these together in a different kingdom. Animals have movement, circulation, respiration, and sexual or asexual reproduction. Even simple animals (one-celled) have those features.

Answer 3

defines an animal as, 1. any of various organisms of the kingdom Animalia. 2. Distinguished from plants by: their voluntary movement, their non photosynthetic methods of nutrition, their usually requiring complex organic nutriments, more or less a central nervous system, their non cellulose cell membrane. 3. Such an animal other than man. 4. A man who behaves like a brute.

Webster’s dictionary defines an animal as, 1. any of various organisms of the kingdom Animalia. 2. Distinguished from plants by: their voluntary movement, their non photosynthetic methods of nutrition, their usually requiring complex organic nutriments, more or less a central nervous system, their non cellulose cell membrane. 3. Such an animal other than man. 4. A man who behaves like a brute.

The most interesting part of this definition is the phrase, such an animal other than man. What is man? Are humans a separate species different and above all other species? The dictionary goes on to define an animal as, a man who behaves like a brute. A brute is someone who acts harsh, to the point of cruelty, someone who acts savagely violent, plain and direct with no regard for feeling. Which animal acts in this manner? This does not describe animals. It describes humans.

The first two definitions of what an animal is are correct but the last two are wrong. The last two definitions are incorrect in that contrary to what it says, man (humans) is an animal.

We are animals though we are taught we aren’t. We are taught to look down on animals, to believe we are their masters and they are our pets and our entertainment. We assign our darker nature to them even though they are nowhere near as evil as we are. We do all this because we try to deny we are animals. The separation of humans with their animal nature began with religion. When we started worshipping gods who lived, not on Earth, but in the sky, we began to look down on all things material. We no longer wanted to be Earth beings. We wanted to be like our gods. They did not live on Earth; they lived "up there". We wanted to be "up there" too, so we tried to separate ourselves from everything Earthly in order to be more god-like. We worshipped anything that was not from Earth. We could not accept the fact that we are animals, that we are humans and that we are material beings. We tried to deny it and we tried to destroy anything that reminded us of what we are. We can’t stand being human. We can’t stand being what we are, animals.

When we imagine man "acting like an animal", we imagine savagery, we imaging having intercourse whenever we want, we imagine the male dragging the female away by the hair and we imagine lack of speech. These are images we’ve been taught since childhood. As a result, people think acknowledging we are animals means we’re going to have to walk around on all fours, growl and eat raw meat. This is nonsense. We’d just be mimicking another animal if we did that. We are animals but we are still human.

To become an animal doesn’t mean we stop being human. It doesn’t mean we stop talking and start growling. We retain all the characteristics that make us human just like the giraffe retains the characteristics that make it a giraffe. Human is our name. We are animals called human, just like giraffe is an animal called giraffe. We are animals and we are human. We are not some species that stands separate from the rest. We exist at the same level and are subject to the same laws that govern the rest of nature. We are animals.

Answer 4

In general they are multi­cellular, capable of locomotion and responsive to their environ­ment, and feed by con­suming other orga­nisms. The human is also considered part of the animal kingdom

Answer 5

an animal is any organism belonging to the animal kingdom, it is multicellular, reproduces sexually, and gains energy by eating other organisms (plants or animals). this includes the invertebrates, such as arthropods, worms, sponges, ect. and vertebrae like mammals, birds, or reptiles

note:members of the bacteria, archea, and fungi kingdoms, though alive, are not considered animals

Answer 6

any living thing except a plant is an animal, humans are also categorized as animals

Answer 7

"Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all fours, which, because of his “divine spiritual and intellectual development,” has become the most vicious animal of all!"

Answer 8

Are you kidding! sure u kno what it is!
come on, anything that breathes and that's no plant...
some say human beings are animals too..

Answer 9

Generally a furry thing that isn't a human. Sometimes they bark, sometimes they growl, sometimes they meow. They live in the wild sometimes, or sometimes they live in your house. Usually they don't walk on 2 feet but on 4...

Answer 10

Any living thing (meat) that is not classified as a plant.