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Literary notes about Animals (AI summary)

Throughout literature, the term "animals" is employed in diverse ways that reflect both scientific inquiry and cultural symbolism. In scientific treatises such as Darwin’s works [1, 2, 3, 4], animals are rigorously classified and analyzed, underscoring the evolutionary relationships and natural functions that define their existence. By contrast, in works of fiction and mythology, animals take on rich metaphorical roles—portrayed as sagacious, wild, or even emblematic of human traits [5, 6, 7, 8]. Moreover, in anthropological and religious texts, the term underscores the deep connections and distinctions between human society and the animal kingdom, often serving to explain rituals or totemic beliefs [9, 10, 11]. This varied usage across genres highlights the word's capacity to bridge empirical observation with allegorical and cultural narratives.
  1. Colour and constitutional peculiarities go together, of which many remarkable cases could be given among animals and plants.
    — from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  2. With animals having separated sexes, there will be in most cases a struggle between the males for the possession of the females.
    — from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  3. Ears: drooping, in domestic animals, 11. rudimentary, 454.
    — from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  4. [The science of animals.] Zoology.
    — from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
  5. The day began to dawn as they entered the clearing which had been formed by those sagacious and industrious animals.
    — from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper
  6. Dickon's a kind lad an' animals likes him."
    — from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  7. All the other animals in the forest naturally expect me to be brave, for the Lion is everywhere thought to be the King of Beasts.
    — from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  8. But finally she would grow calmer and say some comforting disdainful thing—something like this: “But who are they?—Animals!
    — from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
  9. Hence comes the interdiction against eating the sacred animals or vegetables, and especially those serving as totems.
    — from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim
  10. The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters Chapter 54.
    — from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer
  11. For Tylor as for Wundt, totemism is only a particular case of the cult of animals.
    — from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

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