Animal stereotype may refer to:
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Stereotypy (non-human)
In animal behaviour, stereotypy, stereotypical or stereotyped behaviour has several meanings, leading to ambiguity in the scientific literature. A stereotypy is a term for a group of phenotypic behaviours that are repetitive, morphologically i ...
, repetitive behaviours of animals; the term has two meanings:
** repetitive "abnormal" behaviours due to abnormal conditions with no obvious function
** repetitive normal behaviours due to physiological or anatomical constraints
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Animal epithet
An animal epithet is a name used to label a person or group, by association with some perceived quality of an animal. Epithets may be formulated as similes, explicitly comparing people with the named animal, as in "he is as sly as a fox", or as ...
, an epithet that compares a human to an animal basing on an animal trait thought as typical to this type of animal
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Anthropomorphism, ascribing a particular category of animals of human traits, emotions, or intentions.
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