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Animals in folklore that are depicted as being anthropomorphic (having human-like behavior and physical traits). Subcategories This category has the following 17 subcategories, out of 17 total.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... people who identify as partially or entirely animal
Image credits: ellemenohpea2 Pet owners and animal lovers flock to the ‘Danglers’ community to share joyful, weird, and cute photos of the creatures they come across.
Commonly depicted as having beautiful insectoid wings. Faun – Humanoid beings with the horns and lower bodies of goats. Fetch – an exact, spectral double of a living human; can appear as an omen. Fext – (Slavic) Undead warriors who can only be killed with bullets made of glass; Finmen – (Scottish) Mermaid like beings from Orkney lore.
De Waal has written: "To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us." [65] Alongside this has come increasing awareness of the linguistic abilities of the great apes and the recognition that they are tool-makers and have individuality and ...
The first scroll, which is considered the most famous, depicts various animals (frogs, rabbits and monkeys) frolicking as if they were human. [6] [8] [18] There is no writing on any of the scrolls; they consist of pictures only. [19] The first scroll is also the largest, with a length of 11 meters (36 ft) and 30 cm (1 ft) wide. [8]
It means to attribute animal forms or animal characteristics to other animals, or things other than an animal; similar to but broader than anthropomorphism. Contrary to anthropomorphism, which views animal or non-animal behavior in human terms, zoomorphism is the tendency of viewing human behavior in terms of the behavior of animals. It is also ...
Beings displaying a mixture of human and animal traits while also having a similarly blended appearance have played a vast and varied role in multiple traditions around the world. [14] Artist and scholar Pietro Gaietto has written that "representations of human-animal hybrids always have their origins in religion".