Animals
- Oscar (fish), Astronotus ocellatus
- Oscar (therapy cat), cat who can purportedly predict the deaths of hospice patients
- Oscar (bionic cat), a cat which had implants after losing both hind paws
- Unsinkable Sam, World War II ship's cat also known as Oscar
- oskar, a gene required for the development of the Drosophila embryo
- OSCAR (gene)
- Beast of Busco, a North American cryptid turtle named Oscar
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Famous quotes containing the word animals:
“For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Humans are amphibians—half spirit and half animal.... As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”
—C.S. (Clive Staples)
“We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.”
—native American belief, quoted by D. Jenness in “The Carrier Indians of the Bulkley River,” Bulletin no. 133, Bureau of American Ethnology (1943)