In the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, we heard a radio journalist say, “Not only were humans affected by the storm, birds and animals were affected, too.” The eccentric taxonomy was jarring: Humans and birds are animals. That malapropism, however, was only a variant of a linguistic convention: use of the phrase humans and animals to distinguish humans categorically from all other animal species. In everyday parlance, animals means not, and less than, human. The "animals" in "animal hospitals" are understood not to be human; the insult is clear in a snarled, "You're an animal!" The human-animal convention is alive and well in psychological. For instance, a PsychInfo search on titles including "human/s+animal/s" in the past 10 years yielded dozens of articles in diverse subdisciplines.