Animal other
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The "animal other" is the set of animals that are held by humans to be separate from personhood. In other words, all other animals, or non-human animals. The term "animal other" is in common use in critical animal studies to reinforce that "animals" includes humans and that the animals outside of humans are considered to be "othered" in a way that moves them beyond moral consideration, as human minorities sometimes are. It's also less cumbersome to say than "non-human animals".
After a statement about humans, one might also use the form "other animals".