Biologically, humans are animals because we share many physical and physiological similarities with them. However, there are certainly enough differences to distinguish us from other animals. We will examine these differences between humans and animals.
What is Humans?
Humans, or humans, are any member of the mammal family Homo sapiens, a group of land-dwelling, tailless, universally found bipedal primates that can speak and communicate, and run in the body is straight which frees the hands to manipulate objects.
Humans, unlike other species, use language to convey a vast amount of cultural information. Many animals, including most invertebrates, are unrelated to their parents because they die before reproduction and therefore do not pass information on to their offspring,
whereas humans care for very important parents to their offspring by forming monogamous relationships, and raising them in a home where their offspring parents taught them.
What is Animals?
The entire group of multicellular eukaryotic organisms belonging to the kingdom Animalia (that is, unlike bacteria, whose deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is in a membrane-bound nucleus) is thought to have evolved separately from unicellular eukaryotes.
Animals have important morphological and anatomical differences from the other two kingdoms of multicellular eukaryotes, plants (Plants) and fungi (Mycota) It has abundant muscle development, resulting in animal movement, a feature that helped develop limbs and organ systems.
Muscles and their movements are the hallmarks of humans in the animal kingdom. Mobility has a profound effect on an organism’s ability to store nutrients for growth and reproduction.
Animals, like one, forage for other living species, but some consume dead organisms or even photosynthesize by establishing symbiotic algae. In the other two multicellular kingdoms, the type of nutrition is less important than the type of transport.
Difference Between Humans and Animals
| Humans | Animals |
| Humans belong to the species “Homo sapiens” | Animals cover a number of species. |
| Humans are omnivores. | Most animals are either herbivores or carnivores. Animals like bears are omnivores. |
| The average human brain weighs 1.2 kgs | Brain size varies across species – with the largest ones weighing in at 6.92 kgs (blue whales) and the smallest ever belonging to the ragworm, measuring just under 180 micrometres across (equal to the width of a human hair) |
| Just like animals, humans are also driven by instincts. However, we can also reason. | Animals are primarily driven by instincts. |
| Modern humans are bipedal. | Most vertebrates are quadrupedal, i.e., they walk on four legs. Few animals such as snakes crawl. The aquatic organisms have fins to swim. |
| Humans have “true language” to express themselves. | Animals communicate with each other; however, none have the complexity nor the expressiveness of the human language. |
