Question: why are we animals

Ross King answered on 17 Nov 2015:

Humans are very unique indeed, but this does not mean we are not animals. We share a lot of common features with the rest of the animal kingdom (we move, we breathe, we reproduce, etc) and also our DNA (the building blocks of life that tell our bodies what we’re going to be like) is very similar to other creatures that we might call animals, such as chimps and orangutang.

We are definitely animals, just very special ones!