animality

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“Wolf Play” suggests there’s an animality connecting us that transcends gendered social scripts; kinship and love are wild and don’t play by any rules.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2022

He believed “a being who is ashamed of his animality in that very fact proves himself to be more than a mere animal”.

From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2019

He thinks that personhood is a form of self-imposed dullness and yearns for the vivid openness of animality.

From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016

Much of how these animals handle stress in their world is determined by their animality.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2013

The animal man, while retaining much of his animality, has evolved from it higher faculties and attributes, while our four-footed kindred have not thus progressed.

From Ways of Nature by Burroughs, John