Fair enough. It's definitely a GM call whether it can applied to animal.
It's not an entirely unreasonable reading. On the other hand, the wording of the animal type is very specific and definite:
That's not how that works. The "specific" in "specific trumps general" is not determined by how clear-cut or unambiguous the rule is, it is determined by how circumstantial it is.
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