Animal. A biolegal approach
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Animal, nonhuman animals, biolegality, climate change, biodiversityAbstract
The legal notion of animal must be based on a biological approach, which enables the complex notion that the term animal encompasses to be clearly and simply understood. Other non-legal terms, such as “non-human animal”, “the remaining animals" or “the other animals”, are well-intentioned approaches with ethical roots, influenced by a desire to show respect for animals, that should be avoided in the legal sphere in the interests of the accuracy required by regulatory texts. This article sets out to analyse what an animal is for the law, starting from a consideration of the biological nature of the animal, in order to propose a biolegal notion of the animal that can be incorporated into normative texts.
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