Plant Animal Hybrids and Animalness in Animals

In eastern thought, there are strong traditions of all this, as discussed inongother many sources. Chinas daism and japans ashintoism both emphasize the spirits of animals, plants, natural objects and artifacts. We have strong, folkloric, legendary and mythological a concepts of plant animal hybrids. They certainly perform various functions in a bolic, a metaphoric and supernatural thought. But they also raise the question, inevitably, of animalness in plants and plantness in animals.