Talk:Animal

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What are this?

First, categorizing single-called organisms like Protozoa as “animals” seems anachronistic. What happened here?

Second, there’s a weird, short section where animals’ legal status is described. I’m not objecting to that, but it shouldn’t be an aside. I think that the colloquial/legal/biological trichotomy should be better explored, if we are going to talk about what animals are and what that legally entails. Quantheory (talk) 08:00, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Oh, and also the whole legal section here seems to be about law in the US Midwest, so it would be good to have some meaningful input about wild animals elsewhere. Quantheory (talk) 08:06, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Yes, protozoa as animals is archaic. They are now considered a separate kingdom by Ruggiero et al.: see Protozoa. Bongolian (talk) 08:12, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

"Animals are divided into six groups"

Having five of them be for vertebrates and one for everything else is ridiculously vertebrate-centric, especially as chordates are only one of 36 recognized animal phyla. Plutocow (talk) 22:10, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

I divided them into six simple groups so it would complicate them. What would you propose? Rational Dude (talk) 22:11, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

I'll fix it. Plutocow (talk) 22:20, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

Okay. What should I do for the vertebrate groups? Rational Dude (talk) 22:57, 14 August 2023 (UTC)