I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.
“What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.”
“Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B.”