When you say "animal", do you generally include insects?

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When YOU personally use the word "animal", do you usually include insects in it?

By the way, insects compose 75% of all animal life on the planet, just so you know.

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  • Couman
    10 years ago | pl

    Yes. Also the other oft-forgotten animal: humans.

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    • Lissisbliss
      10 years ago

      An animal is a land mammal other than a human being but nice one.

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  • RoseIsabella
    10 years ago

    As far as I'm concerned if it's not an a
    vegetable or a mineral it's an animal.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      So mushrooms and fruits are animals?

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      • Lissisbliss
        10 years ago

        A mushroom is a vegetable.

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          10 years ago

          No, it's a fungus. Which isn't even a plant.

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          • Kittykinz
            10 years ago

            Do mushrooms not count as vegetables because they're a type of fungi? What classes something as a vegetable?

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          • Lissisbliss
            10 years ago

            Pshhh

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            • Anonymous Post Author
              10 years ago

              If by "Pshhh" you mean you don't believe me, then please read a biology textbook.

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    • anti-hero
      10 years ago

      What I was gonna say word for word.

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      • RoseIsabella
        10 years ago

        ;-)

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  • Shoefish
    10 years ago

    Yes! I've never understood why so many people can't get their heads around this. I've even heard some people say that fish and birds aren't animals. I think they must get 'mammal' and 'animal' mixed up.

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    Yes because that's their classification.
    But when I look at them, I think: aliens!

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  • Teh4HorsMen
    10 years ago

    I include of Muppets too.

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    They are...but I don't like it...I think of animals, bugs, and plants. Those are my main classification systems :P

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  • Tichi
    10 years ago

    They're part of the animal kingdom after all.
    So yes, I do consider them animals.

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  • funkedup
    10 years ago

    Burnt, my brother and I had a long discussion about this recently (clearly we have too much time on our hands).

    In short, we settled on "Animal Kingdom," as a biological term, includes insects; but the common use of "animal" in day-to-day speech, at least for us, does not.

    It got pretty intense for a while, but I'm glad we were able to reach common ground.

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  • kelili
    10 years ago

    Good question, and no I don't include insects.

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  • Tommythecat.
    10 years ago

    Yeah.

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