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Take a class in animal behavior and you’ll probably receive a warning: Beware of anthropomorphism. Explaining animals in terms of human motivations, emotions, or mental characteristics invites ...

Have you ever assigned personalities to your pets and explained their behaviors in terms of human motivations, such as imagining that a cat is being stubborn? The attribution of human characteristics, ...

Some critics of anthropomorphism want it both ways but their double-talk is very misleading Over the years I’ve noticed a curious phenomena. If a scientist says that an animal is happy, no one ...