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Animal (Muppet)
Animal is the wild drummer Muppet of Doctor Teeth and the Electric Mayhem Band, created for The Muppet Show (1975-1981). Originally performed by Frank Oz (1975-2000), he has been performed by Eric Jacobson since 2002.
Animal (एनिमल) (soundtrack)
ANIMAL (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the 2023 T-Series album for Sandeep Reddy Vanga's film Animal, with eight Hindi songs by Manan Bhardwaj, Vishal Mishra, Jaani, Pritam and others, plus a Harshavardhan Rameshwar background-score album.
Animal Ambition
Animal Ambition: An Untamed Desire to Win is 50 Cent's fifth studio album, released June 3, 2014 on G-Unit Records via Caroline/Capitol after leaving Interscope; it debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 with 47,000 first-week copies.
Animal and Plant Health Agency
Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), UK Defra executive agency since 1 October 2014, merging AHVLA and FERA plant/bee health; Weybridge HQ, about 3,200 staff, disease surveillance, trade certification, and National Biosecurity Centre.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), USDA agency established April 2, 1972; protects U.S. plants, animals, and natural resources, administers the Animal Welfare Act, runs Veterinary Services, Wildlife Services, and the NAHLN lab network; over 8,000 employees.
Animal carpet
An animal carpet is a knotted-pile Persian carpet filled with animals in combat or hunting scenes, produced in Safavid Iran in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Animal City
Animal City (أنيمال سيتي) is a private zoo and refuge in the Nahr el-Kalb valley, Zikrit, Lebanon, opened in 2005 by Samir Ghattas's Gatas Group; Lebanon's largest zoo, criticized over welfare, trafficking, and the Charlie chimpanzee case.
Animal cognition
Animal cognition (comparative cognition) is the scientific study of nonhuman animal mental processes, from Darwin's mental continuity thesis and Morgan's Canon to modern findings on counting crows, convergent bird and cephalopod minds, and self-recognition tests.
Animal Collective
Animal Collective: American experimental pop group of Baltimore County friends Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist, and Deakin; breakthrough 2009 album Merriweather Post Pavilion (ChoruScore 99); albums Feels (2005) and Strawberry Jam (2007) on Domino.
Animal communication
Animal communication: transmission of signals between animals via visual, acoustic, chemical, and other channels; includes functional reference, vervet alarm calls, and comparisons with human language.
Animal consciousness
Animal consciousness: whether nonhuman animals have subjective experience, the distribution question. Interdisciplinary field; the 2024 New York Declaration affirms consciousness in mammals and birds and a realistic possibility in insects, reptiles, and molluscs.
Animal Control (TV series)
Animal Control is an American single-camera workplace sitcom created by Bob Fisher, Rob Greenberg, and Dan Sterling, starring Joel McHale as ex-cop Frank Shaw at Seattle's animal control division. It premiered on FOX February 16, 2023, was FOX's first wholly owned live-action comedy, and reached a fifth season in 2026.
Animal Crackers (1930 film)
Animal Crackers (1930) is the Marx Brothers' second Paramount film, adapted from their 1928 Broadway musical, directed by Victor Heerman, starring Groucho as Captain Spaulding, and entering the US public domain in 2026.
Animal Crackers (2017 film)
Animal Crackers (2017) is a 3D computer-animated comedy-fantasy directed by Scott Christian Sava, Tony Bancroft, and Jaime Maestro, about magic cookies that turn eaters into animals; it premiered at Annecy 2017 and reached Netflix in 2020 after distribution disputes.
Animal Crossing
Animal Crossing (Dōbutsu no Mori) is Nintendo's real-time social simulation franchise begun in 2001 on N64; players live with animal villagers, earn Bells, and never "win." New Horizons (2020) sold over 44 million copies during the pandemic.
Animal Crossing (video game)
Animal Crossing (Dōbutsu no Mori, どうぶつの森) is Nintendo's 2001 N64 life simulation game, Japan-only, directed by Katsuya Eguchi and Hisashi Nogami, with a real-time clock; the GameCube port reached the West in 2002.
Animal Crossing: City Folk
Animal Crossing: City Folk (Let's Go to the City) is Nintendo's 2008 Wii life simulation, third mainline entry, adding the City area and Wii Speak voice chat; Metacritic 73, lowest-rated mainline game.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) is Nintendo's life simulation game for Switch, released March 20, 2020, set on a deserted island with Tom Nook, crafting, terraforming, and real-time seasons; a COVID-era hit with Metacritic 90 and a 2026 3.0 update.
Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Animal Crossing: New Leaf (2012, Nintendo 3DS) is the fourth main Animal Crossing game, where the player becomes mayor, enacting ordinances and public works projects. Sold 13.06 million units; Metacritic 88; Welcome amiibo update 2016.
Animal Crossing: Wild World (おいでよ どうぶつの森)
Animal Crossing: Wild World (おいでよ どうぶつの森) is Nintendo's 2005 Nintendo DS social simulation game, the series' first handheld entry, directed by Hisashi Nogami; it sold 11.75 million copies and its online service ended in 2014.
Animal disease
An animal disease is an impairment of an animal's normal state that interrupts or modifies its vital functions, from foot-and-mouth disease to zoonoses like rabies, threatening food supplies and human health.
Animal disease surveillance
Animal disease surveillance is the systematic, ongoing collection, analysis, and dissemination of animal health information, supporting early detection of infection, disease control, prevalence estimates, and trade based on demonstrated freedom from disease.
Animal Drug Availability Act 1996
The Animal Drug Availability Act of 1996 (ADAA) is a United States federal law signed in October 1996 that gave the FDA flexibility in approving new animal drugs.
Animal echolocation
Animal echolocation, also called biosonar, is the use of sound pulses and returning echoes by animals to sense their surroundings, most notably in bats and toothed whales.
Animal Enclosure
Animal enclosure: the constructed space housing captive animals in zoos and sanctuaries, also called habitat exhibit. Evolved from barred cages to Hagenbeck's moated panoramas and 1970s landscape immersion; design is now judged by welfare evidence and standards.
Animal euthanasia
Animal euthanasia is the humane ending of an animal's life, minimizing pain and distress before loss of consciousness, governed by AVMA 2020 guidelines, using barbiturates for pets, CO2 or physical methods in laboratories, and distinct from slaughter and depopulation.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story is a 1945 novella by George Orwell, an allegory of the Soviet regime in which farm animals' rebellion descends into tyranny.
Animal Farm (1954 film)
Animal Farm is a 1954 British animated feature directed by John Halas and Joy Batchelor, adapting Orwell's novella and covertly part-funded by the CIA as Cold War propaganda.
Animal Farm (1999 film)
Animal Farm (1999) is a TNT/Hallmark Entertainment live-action TV film of Orwell's novella, directed by John Stephenson, using Jim Henson Creature Shop animatronics, voiced by Patrick Stewart and Ian Holm, with a changed hopeful ending.
Animal Farm (video)
Animal Farm is a 1981 British-Danish pornographic compilation video, released in Germany, built from Danish hardcore loops starring the performer Bodil Joensen.