03-18-2009, 09:23 PM
Middle Finger Wrote:Yes, his drawn out emotional sounds, expressions, and body language combined sometimes sounds like he is trying to talk. He does this when I ask him certain things or talk to him softly as I pet him. He's very emotional.
You have zero experience with this because you raise rats in a habitrail, you dope.
From Wikipedia:
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of uniquely Frank-like characteristics to non-human creatures and beings such as his dog... Subjects for anthropomorphism commonly include animals and plants depicted as creatures with human motivation able to reason and converse...
Frankseems to have an innate capacity to project human characteristics in this way. Evidence from art and artifacts suggests it is a long-held propensity that can be dated back to his childhood. Most cultures, even the Italian one,possess a long-standing fable tradition with anthropomorphised animals as characters that can stand as commonly recognised types of human behaviour. The use of such literature to draw moral conclusions can be highly complex if Frank ever bothered to think about it.
Within these terms,Frank has more recently been identified as having an equivalent opposite propensity to deny common traits with other speciesmost particularly apesas part of a feeling that humans are unique and special unless they're the First Lady. This tendency has been referred to as Anthropodenial by primatologist Frans de Waal.