Should Animated Films about Animals be more Biologically Accurate?

It depends on the film. If it's an animated nature documentary, then yeah, it should be accurate. If it's a film like Zootopia or The Lion King, I couldn't care less if they're biologically accurate.

Were you disappointed by Toy Story because it's not an accurate portrayal of toys, or Monsters, Inc. because it's not an accurate portrayal of monsters? Maybe you should try to be a little more open-minded. You can imagine that those films take place in an alternate universe that's different from ours.

If you want to see an animated film that shows the cruelness of nature, I recommend Ringing Bell. It's not completely realistic, but it's very dark.

Animals have always been used in story telling since ancient times and, often in stories, animals may speak, walk like humans, dress like humans, or perform magic. Animation, especially, lends itself to tales that go beyond what is real or expected. I certainly enjoy realism as well, but why would I want to limit the storytellers' craft?

Look OhNoos, to tell you the Truth I had said absolutely nothing about limiting the Storytellers' Craft and/or Crafts. If Animals speak and walk like humans, dress like humans, or even perform Magic all of that is fine by me. I only asked the Question that I asked because most and a Majority of Animated Films that are about Animals are about Animals that are Real as you and me, therefore those Animals should be Biologically Accurate to their Real Life counter parts, and even then Biological Accuracy can actually enhance and improve any Film about Real Animals and gives off much more Creative Potential, due to how you could creatively think of ways of how to incorporate Facts about a Real Animal into the Film that you are trying to make about said Real Animal. For example I admittedly think that Disney's The Lion King my favorite Film Period would have been better if it showed the Lionesses working together hunt down, and kill some Prey of their own, or even Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed all working with each other on a Wildebeest Hunt, and succeeding on their own which would have shown that sometimes Species of Animals are not so different much better than that Disney's The Lion Guard Song ever did. Just like Non Avian Dinosaurs, these Animals that these Animated Films are about are Real, so it is just as important to make sure that Real Animals in Visual Media are Biologically Accurate as it is important to make sure that Non Avian Dinosaurs and other Prehistoric Animals in Visual Media are Paleontologically Accurate or Scientifically Accurate, also if the Animals that a Majority of Animated Films are about were not Real then I would not have asked this Question, nor advocate so much for Biological Accuracy in Animated Films about Animals. I also asked the Question I asked only because the Film Makers and Film Animators that make these Animated Films that are about Real Animals annoyingly (in my Opinion) continuously sacrifice Biological Accuracy for Story 100% of the Time, when in Reality both can exist together at the same exact time, you can have your Cake and eat it you know, and Biological Accuracy and Story can coexist in Harmony it's just that Film Makers and Film Animators never see that when making Animated Films that are about Real Animals. I have just had enough of Biological Accuracy being thrown out the window for Story in Animated Films that are about Real Animals which is the Real Reason why I have stopped watching them entirely recently, and honestly will never watch them again until there actually are Animated Films about Real Animals that have both Story and Biological Accuracy instead of one getting kicked out for the other. In the mean time, maybe if I have time I will go see that Watership Down Film, that Plague Dogs Film Adaptation, and even Ringing Bell or Chirin No Suzu, because at least those Animated Films that are about Real Animals unlike the Animated Films that my Question was actually addressing all have both Story and Biological Accuracy without sacrificing one for the other, which is why if I have time, I will give all Three of those a watch for myself. Just to let you know, and so that we are both Clear on that. :)

So what do you think they should them to make them more accurate not have them talk?

Nah. The story is more important than biological accuracy when it comes to anthropomorphic animals.

Seize the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead.

Wow... If I may be honest here, I wonder if you're not trolling us here. But I will give you the benefit of doubt and try to answer your question:

Animated films are hardly ever meant to be nature documentaries. Some of them will be more realistic than others (like "Lady & the Tramp" and "The Lion King"), but few of them will be even near what you seem to be looking for. And if you really want to see mindless gore and animals eating other animals, fine. But don't expect to find that in Disney movies. They are mostly made for children, whose parents will not want their kids to watch such things yet...

Intelligence and purity.

I still enjoyed The Lion King even if it was inaccurate to how animals behaved in Africa, but I imagine Scar killing Mufasa and becoming the new alpha lion was pretty accurate, but causing the stampede probably would not have happened in the actual wildlife. Regardless of how inaccurate Madagascar is to how zoo animals would behave around each other, I still like the Madagascar films.

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