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A multicellular hypocrite that eats other living things and calls it survival.
means A living, breathing, moving creature that eats other organisms to survive — basically any member of the biological kingdom Animalia, including us.
from From Latin 'animalis,' meaning 'having breath' or 'having a soul,' itself rooted in 'anima' — breath, air, life-force. The ancients drew the line simply: if it breathed and moved itself, it had an anima, and so it counted as animal. The word has barely wandered since — still carrying that old idea that to be an animal is, literally, to be a breathing thing.
- kingdom size
- over 1.5 million species described so far
- sponges count
- yes, sponges are technically animals too
- humans included
- you are, biologically, an animal that pays rent
- oldest fossil
- animal life traces back over 600 million years