Explore: Metaphorical Animals

A sacrificial lamb is a metaphorical reference to a person or animal sacrificed for the common good. The term is derived from the traditions of the Abrahamic

a substantial (rather than metaphorical) "animal magnetism", "le magnétisme animal", and of a similarly (non-metaphorical) physical "magnetic fluid",

employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. A parable is a type of metaphorical analogy

the animal world, divided into three groups: land animals, air animals, and water animals. The first group is further divided into domestic animals—by

Metaphorical framing is a particular type of framing that attempts to influence decision-making by mapping characteristics of one concept in terms of another

is strong evidence that animals can feel such loss for other animals, this article focuses on human feelings when an animal is lost, dies, or otherwise

part of pastoralist animal husbandry. Because the occupation is so widespread, many religions and cultures have symbolic or metaphorical references to shepherds

as the animal metaphorical equivalent of the Victoria Cross. List of individual dogs "Dickin Medal dogs". People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. Archived

wheels and normally pulled by draught animals such as horses, donkeys, mules and oxen, or even smaller animals such as goats or large dogs. A handcart

certain animals of the same species, either wild or domestic. The form of collective animal behavior associated with this is called herding. These animals are