Animal Behavior

Roles: instinct, predation, prey, territory, mating, dominance, pack, appetite, migration, survival

The repertoire of wild animal conduct: hunting, fleeing, mating, territorial marking, dominance displays, pack hierarchy, and seasonal migration. Distinct from animal husbandry in that no human manager is present — the animals act on instinct, drive, and evolutionary programming rather than under domestication. Source domain for metaphors about human regression, loss of rational control, raw desire, and social hierarchy. When people say someone “is an animal,” they reach for this frame — predation, appetite, mating frenzy — not the managed world of herds and pastures.

As Source Frame (12)

• Agent Swarm → artificial-intelligence
• Animals Are Moral Agents → ethics-and-morality
• The Ant Is the Pure Empiricist → intellectual-inquiry
• Computer Mouse → computing
• Honeybee Is Ideal Scientist → intellectual-inquiry
• Lustful Person Is an Animal → mental-experience
• Muscle → embodied-experience
• Raptor Pit → collaborative-work
• The Spider Is the Pure Rationalist → intellectual-inquiry
• Time Is a Pursuer → time-and-temporality
• Web → computing
• When Pigs Fly → time-and-temporality