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That's  not anthropomorphism.  It's simply describing behaviour in a way  we
understand - it is not ascribing human emotions to  them.
characteristics to something is not human. Anthropo means human  and 
morphism is form or shape'.Kitta
That's not necessarily how the term is described in the  
biological/behavioral sciences.  I quoted the generic dictionary  definition, but even it 
says: 
 
Someone attributes human feelings (that's your  emotion) and 
characteristics (not necessarily emotion) to  something is not human (animals). Anthropo  
means human and morphism is form or  shape'.
 
I have seen drift in the definition by animal behavior  specialists.  In 
the 90s, a workshop at a Nat Meeting of one of the Major  Behavioral Society 
hotly debated this issue.  Yet, I see more and more of  this creeping into 
the animal literature.  
 
Jerry


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