Animals get a bad reputation unfairly

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Silly thread really

But what's the deal with the reputation of animals?

Llamas - drama llama
Giraffe - you're having a giraffe
Cow - stop being a cow

And so on... somewhere in our collective unconscious we've assigned traits to animals somewhat unfairly I feel

I've never owned a llama but are they dramatic? I've not seen it...

Cheeky monkey Calvin OP a silly sausage!
Still - better than being called an old trout!

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There is a Pets Corner with several llamas nearby. Unless they express drama through standing still, chewing, moving to a different area, and chewing some more - it doesn't strike me as a life of drama. But that's anthropomorphism for you - I wouldn't know if they were communicating profundities through delicate eye movements or a nuance of a mid-chew jaw clench...

YANBU

What about 'going at it like rabbits'? Do rabbits indeed go at it like rabbits?

Stop being such a stoat

Proud as a peacock.

Bull in a china shop.

Bear with a sore head.

Someone who cries crocodile tears

@arranbubonicplague I have never seen a llama and perhaps her have deep dramas going on. But the one time I met an alpaca it bit my elbow and then spat in my step son’s face. But he’s a nine year old boy so it was the most hilarious thing that’s ever happened to him. As an adult the elbow bite was not.

Llamas are a bit more dramatic than I thought. Well, alpacas anyway. I heard this on the radio this week.
www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-05/alpaca-attack-had-wa-women-fearing-for-their-lives/10581494

The positive ones though are more truly descriptive are they not?

Has anyone ever given an owl an IQ test?

@claraschu

The worst is when people refer to some frightful human as "an animal", completely forgetting that the only species that is sadistic, abusive, murderous, rude, polluting, wilfully destructive, drug addicted, and generally a blight on the landscape, is actually homo sapiens.

Yeah THIS! I call killers, rapists, thugs, robbers, and so on, evil monsters. i NEVER call them animals.

In addition to what the OP said (and you,) people use pig, dog, ass, gibbon, ape, hippo, 'catty' etc to insult people. So rude, to use lovely animals to insult humans. Animals are lovely. Humans are assholes.

Don't be mean to body parts :( a bum never hurt anyone.

Humans are animals, I don't mean that as a slight, but we actually are animals too.
The pig one is a true one because a pig will eat anything and they eat a lot, not negative towards them, true. Taking a macabre turn, it would take 16 pigs 2 hours to eat an entire human. Foxes are also sly so that one works too.
I agree that some of the terms are either because they rhyme or from some distant held belives of certain animals, that have since been proven to be untrue. Wise as an owl is untrue because apparently owls aren't that intelligent. Memory like a fish has also been proven to be untrue.

After reading that link I may add "aggressive as an Alpaca" into my vocabulary

I've never given an own an IQ test, anyone else?

yes I did, it was a twit (twoooooooo!)

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Alpacas can be dramatic based on my very brief experience of alpaca trekking. A leaf blows past 300 yards away: OMG it's a Mountain Lion about to get me! According to the much more knowledgeable than me trek organiser it's because in the alpaca's normal environment most things are planning on eating it. But drama alpaca lacks assonance.
Also the buggers can spit horrendous stuff but are cute.

You know the old saying about "pick a guinea-pig up by the tail and it's eyes pop out"......?

Our middle aged guinea-pig boar was very ragey " That's *NOT^ my tail"

Llamas get a bad rap because of Alpacas... everyone thinks they all look alike but apparently (according to google) llamas are much calmer and friendlier

They're calmer! Yet they take all the blame just because it rhymes

Misappropriation

i saw this the other day and it made me laugh

Blunt fluffy faces

Cuddly bear

This ^^

Oh wow, that bear almost doesn't look real...