animal

A animal it's a living being that you can move on your own. In general, the denomination includes the members of the kingdom known as Animalia.

There are several characteristics shared by most animals, even with their differences. Animals ingest their food, develop sexual reproduction and absorb oxygen through breathing. These are just a few basic characteristics, but of course animals can be very different from one another.

Animals are living, thinking and sentient beings.

The animal according to its diet

While the animals ingest Their food (and they do not absorb it, unlike other living beings), can be differentiated according to the type of diet. There are animals carnivores (that feed on the meat of other animals), herbivores (who eat plant species) and omnivores (they eat meat and plants).

On the other hand, although the members of the kingdom Animalia they breathe and consume oxygen, some do it on the earth's surface and others under water. With these details, we can appreciate how the group of animals is very broad and includes the most diverse species, from elephants to sharks to rats, owls and mosquitoes.

The case of human beings

Inside the kingdom Animalia He is included human being (Homo sapiens). To establish a more precise definition, the name of animals is often used to refer to the rest of the species, which many consider irrational.

When to a person it is classified as an animal, in general it is wanted to express that the individual is a question is uncivilized, uneducated and with a beastly demeanor, which shows the contempt that human beings tend to feel for the rest of the species. For example: "Rafael is an animal, he always wants to solve his problems with blows".

Animal like adjective, can also be used to name someone with extraordinary features: "Lionel Messi once again showed that he is an animal and scored, again, four goals in the game".

False myths about animals

Lemmings commit suicide

East myth gained a lot of strength thanks to the popularity of the video game entitled "Lemmings", in which the player's mission was to do everything possible to avoid death, towards which they marched without apparent concern. It is believed that the origin of this false claim lies in a Walt Disney documentary called "White Wilderness", published in 1958, although the alleged suicidal behavior of lemmings was mentioned in a children's encyclopedia in the United Kingdom half a century earlier.

The mouse is an animal.

Mice are fascinated by cheese

Despite the fact that cartoons and many animated films or even real actors tirelessly repeat that mice are addicted to cheeseIn reality, they prefer foods such as fruit or grain, which have a certain concentration of sugar. As if this were not enough, given their keen nose, the intense smell of cheese is usually repellent.

Fish don't have a good memory

It is common to hear that fish can only hold a memory for less than 5 seconds, although this is not true: according to some studies, their memory it can last for several months.

Animals do not think or feel

Anyone who has lived with an animal, such as a dog or a cat, and who has given it its space to develop healthily, without subjecting it to training techniques, knows that there is nothing more out of the truth than the statement that places us as the only rational beings capable of feeling affection. Other animals have their own will, make decisions, learn from their experience, they cross all imaginable barriers to understand and make themselves understood, and they express more love to us than we generally know how to return.