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Are insects animals?

Little fish I would say are fish not animals, I guess it's semantics, if you say animal I think of a mammal, ,reptiles are mammals, but there does have to be a line, or otherwise bacteria are animals, and that would just be chaos
 
My answer above was based on the AVM / 20 questions situation, not some high-falutin' philosophical criteria.
Viz ...
Animal - mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians and birds are all included.
I seem to remember that bacteria count as animals, plankton can be either animal or vegetable but a virus, now that is difficult, but on the AVM scale, I would class them as animal.
 
My answer above was based on the AVM / 20 questions situation, not some high-falutin' philosophical criteria.
Viz ...
Animal - mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians and birds are all included.
I seem to remember that bacteria count as animals, plankton can be either animal or vegetable but a virus, now that is difficult, but on the AVM scale, I would class them as animal.

On the simple AVM scale, you're probably right to classify bacteria as animals, but strictly speaking they aren't, because they are monocellular.

Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia

Animals have several characteristics that set them apart from other living things. Animals are eukaryotic and multicellular, which separates them from bacteria and most protists. They are heterotrophic, generally digesting food in an internal chamber, which separates them from plants and algae. They are also distinguished from plants, algae, and fungi by lacking rigid cell walls. All animals are motile, if only at certain life stages. In most animals, embryos pass through a blastula stage, which is a characteristic exclusive to animals.

And in reply to the OP, of course insects are animals, as are fish, even little ones.
 
Yes.

Thread interesting only for the idea that to be an animal you must have a mind. Most sensible people now accept that other animals have minds so that's pushed back a controversy wrt self identity. I quite like the distinction and it may very well not lie at animal/non animal.
 
They have brains, why wouldn't they have minds?

Your brain has tens of billions of neurons, as many as nine of which are operating at any one time.

Even the cleverest of arthropods has only about half a million neurons in its brain. You can't run anything complex enough to call a mind on such paltry hardware. It'd be like trying to play Call of Duty on an abacus.
 
Little fish I would say are fish not animals, I guess it's semantics, if you say animal I think of a mammal, ,reptiles are mammals, but there does have to be a line, or otherwise bacteria are animals, and that would just be chaos
Animals are anything that is not a plant, rock or a microorganism. It really is that simple.
 
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