(n) the tendency to attribute human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects.
Take Disney, for instance. Or any cartoon for that matter. It's always bothered me a little when I see eyelashes on a squirrel to indicate that it is female, or a duck that gets abashed when his pants fall down. It's a little strange that we get some satisfaction out of making animals like ourselves. It doesn't end with animals. We even manage to anthorpomorphize a dishsponge!
Isn't if a little off-putting that we, the human race, feel like we need to humanize everything as if we own the world?
But what happens when ANIMALS choose to humanize themselves? Apologies for the blathering intro to the story of these 2 animals...
Casper, the commuting cat.
read article here
Lala, the backpack-clad, shopping penguin.
Maybe animals don't think anthropomorphology so bad afterall...
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A sponge is an animal, Lana.
- Will
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