Anthropomorphic attributions are something we cannot completely avoid when telling this story. In order to empathize with another being, to ask what it wants and why it does something, we can’t help but draw conclusions from ourselves first, before we abstract from our own perspective in the next step. And sometimes it seems necessary to bring a strategic anthropomorphism into play, in order to make things more sharp, indicating that anthropodenial is the problem we need to be more aware of.

— Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices by Ida Bencke, Jørgen Bruhn (Page 50)