无性暗示的动物扮演常见于原始部落文化，像是北美洲的原住民文化以及史前传说中，半人半兽的动物在他们的文化仪式中有很重要的地位；这些动物如神兽般地被尊敬，有的时候也拿来教育儿童，要求学习动物的求生智慧，以及运动姿态。
这不是斯玛第一个由动物扮演的作品：《Koet》一书与一对常见的黑鸭合作完成(斯玛“喂”给它们的东西被筑入巢中)。
This isn't Sema's first work starring animals; the book "Koet" was made in collaboration with a pair of common coots (Sema "fed" the birds items which they incorporated in their nest).
早期人类似乎扮演了终结者的角色，使其他九种超过一吨的哺乳动物彻底从地球上消失。
Early humans seem to have played a major role in finishing offnine other mammal species that weighed over a tonne.
她指出现在研究者中流行的术语“动物伙伴”更贴切的表达出它们经常扮演的孩子般的角色。
The prevalent term among researchers is now "companion animal," she said, which is closer to the childlike role they so often play.
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