Why are insects not considered as an animal?

Question

just wondering...

Answer 1

Technically, because insects are part of Kingdom Animalia they are animals, however often people consider only organisms in phylum Chordata to be animal (insects are in Phylum Arthropoda)

wikipedia has a good series of articles on phylogenetic heirarchy

Answer 2

Depends who you talk to, anything that moves can be considered an animal.  

Answer 3

Using Linnean Taxonomy, (most commonly accepted in scientific community) Insects are animals. however the term animal is commonly used in place of chordate(organisms with spine/notochord) Insects are invertebrates and most people don't see them as animals.

Answer 4

Flies, ants, cockroaches, caterpillars. etc, the list could go on.. ;-) All of the insects are not considered as animals since they're insects. They're a different species ;)

Answer 5

Insects ARE animals. All multicellular living things that are not plants or fungi are animals, classified in the kingdom Animalia. Many people seem to think 'animal' means the same as 'mammal' - this is entirely incorrect. Humans, snakes, chickens, sharks, frogs, beetles, tarantulas, clams, millipedes, etc., etc. are all animals. Here is the full classification of the Madagascan hissing cockroach, an insect:

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Blattodea

Family: Blaberidae

Genus: Gromphadorhina

Species: portentosa

Compare it to the classification of a lion, a mammal:

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Carnivora

Family: Felidae

Genus: Panthera

Species: leo

As you can clearly see, both belong to the kingdom Animalia, and are therefore both animals.

Answer 6

Do insects have temperature like animal? !! How about whales in the sea? Do they have temperature? Because insects do not have warm blood...meat & hair.

Answer 7

They are considered animals. In biological classification, they are in the kingdom Animalia, phylum Athropoda, class Insectia.  

Answer 8

look up the classification of animals first of all, then from there study how everything branches off. its just a different group of species

Answer 9

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Answer 10

insects are considered animals. They are in a group called Animalia, and the in the class Insecta. They are considered Arthropods, meaning jointed legs. They are grouped together with spiders, bees, crabs, lobsters, but insects are different insects can be cut into sections.