Is classifying humans as an “animal” the same definition as how the term “animal” is used in daily conversation? Or are those different?

Question

Are humans animals? Are animals humans? Does classifying humans as animals mean they’re also considered “non human animals” like the term is used in daily conversation to refer to non human animals?

Answer 1

Daily conversation frequently misapplies scientific terms. Consider how the word "theory" is used in common language, as if it meant a guess or something with a great degree of uncertainty, whereas the term theory in science connotes a high level of certainty, based on data that are available thus far. Commonly people refer to their pets as animals in ways that imply that humans are something other than animals. But humans are animals. We are part of the kingdom Animalia, consisting of multicellular eukaryotes that can move around and have a heterotrophic mode of nutrition.

Answer 2

Humans would be considered the Kingdom Animalia, so in scientific terms, yes. Humans are considered to be animals. We would not qualify animals to be humans; humans are homosapiens, considered a species under the Kingdom Animalia. We would be considered in the same groups under the mammal class. We call ourselves humans and animals to put ourselves above those as we have a higher intellect so we can tell each thing apart. Saying that humans are animals is not wrong, we just put ourselves on a higher plane to differentiate ourselves from those we feel are beneath us, or we need to subdue and rule over.