Beating a Dead Caribou

I'm become quite obsessive about the false dichotomy between humans and animals, but that's what blogs are for. Anyway, you can probably guess why this gets under my skin:

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If we are not animals, what the heck are we? Rocks? Plants? Personally, I think rather highly of animals and I'm happy to be in their company.