Interestingly, Aesop’s fables feature animals as protagonists rather than humans. In some contexts, the use of non-humans is meant to illuminate the human experience through “humans in disguise” (Sutton-Spence and Napoli, 2010, p. 442) in a metaphoric way. This kind of anthropomorphism is ubiquitous across cultures (Tehrani, 2013) and is considered acceptable for evoking emotion and appealing to broad audiences (Sutton-Spence and Napoli, 2010).