why do humans look different whilst animals all look the same?

Question

i mean, animals of the same species have the same face, whereas humans look different from each other. why is that? aren't we animals too?

Answer 1

Okay, a couple of things here.

First, to the question itself. Many animals do look different, from facial characteristics to markings on their skin or coat. They would have to have identical DNA to look exactly alike.

Second, most humans spend more time looking at human faces. The brain has areas devoted to the recognition of faces. There are some who just do not have this section or it does not work properly and they cannot tell faces apart due to this.

To Lemonfries, I find it ridiculous to say that one ethnicity thinks all of another ethnicity look alike.

Answer 2

Animals do look different from each other. However, human beings are more sensitive to the differences that exist in our species, while only members of the animal species can easily recognize the differences among their own members. If you were a wolf, you would notice that one wolf has a longer snout and another wolf has eyes that are closer together. Personally, I think that all men who lived in the seventeenth century look alike. That's because they all wore similar wigs, while I consider hair to be a significant differentiating feature.

Answer 3

Humans each look unique to us because we are human, very social, and highly tuned to recognize individual faces. It is suggested that we have hard-wiring in our brains for rudimentary human face recognition. Animals of other species all look pretty much the same to us, but actually most species have about the same amount of individual variation as we do. We just can't detect it as easily.

Answer 4

Humans look different to humans cause we are trained to look for differences because it's important. You have to be able to distinguish between your enemy and friend for instance.
It's not so important for us to distinguish between other animals, so they look the same even though they are not. I'm sure for animals, we all look the same to them.
Babies CAN distinguish between other animals. It seems to be an ability we lose in adulthood.
Check this link which says babies can distinguish between different monkeys

"Infants in their first six months can tell the difference between two monkey faces that an older person would say are identical, and they can match calls that monkeys make with pictures of their faces."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070525/sc_livescience/infantshaveamazingcapabilitiesthatadultslack;_ylt=AmZBSqV9ItyVGPuyCwD6z6fMWM0F

Answer 5

animals look different also. That is why farm owners can differentiate their own animals.

It's the same logic when you look at different races of people. The Caucasians think Asians look alike and vice versa. It is harder to differentiate things you don't have a lot of contact with.

Answer 6

Btw, I see that no one made any mention of energy waves. I think some animals may be operating on a different instinctual level or may be more aware, or possibly even see or as. Who knows!

Answer 7

Animals have their differences too, you just have to take the time to look at them.

Have you ever seen two different colored horses?
As in a brown one and a black one?

Answer 8

That's what the animals were saying about us too. And they also said "we all taste like chickens" to them too.

Answer 9

who told that they ;look the same??