This paper focuses on the consideration of animals within anthropology It reaches in the area of the definition of man (and also animality) and searches for novelties within the epistemological aspect of animals. Pursuant to the basic subject of interest, i.e. man, anthropologists find themselves distanced from animals despite the fact that they have been present in ethnographical studies for years. They usually served as a medium for discovering the characteristics and nature of societies. They are presented in classical anthropological texts as passive objects, as the symbols of beliefs and cults, decorated with metaphorical meanings or described within the scope of economic terms. However, changes have occurred in the anthropological consideration of animals, and these changes can be integrated in the general atmosphere and the concern for animal rights. Animals are becoming more present, independent and considered as a subject and part of the society Changes in sciences such as medicine, genetics and biotechnology have in accordance with bioethical guidelines encouraged the redefinition of some anthropological concepts, for instance the domestication. The redefinition of phenomena was also stimulated by the imbalance between the social and biological approach of anthropology This constantly raises questions about the determination of human, society, culture. The implicit notion of the latter is the questioning of the border, where the human dimension ends and where the animal dimension starts. It is possible to derive from the issues concerning the social and natural scientific aspect that the milestone is quite difficult to set. Wherever we will search for the reason to delimit a human from an animal (culture, language, use of tools), we will find ourselves in front of the arbitrariness and cultural construction of mentioned milestones, which have proven unjustified. Therefore, some anthropologists set the advantage, in unison with animal ethics, for the continuity between organisms. Dialogue of anthropology with animal ethics is implemented and realised in the search for the characteristic determining the difference between a human and an animal (anthropology) and whether that specific characteristic is morally significant so that it may provide moral rights to the carrier of the characteristic (animal ethics). Anthropology as the observation and participation approach can at the same time enable productive patterns of thinking about animals and approaching animal studies. The anthropological method is an inter-subjective, non-reductionist method of observation; it considers others with respect and is very cautious, so that it does not get itself caught in the traps of ethnocentrism, as well as anthropocentrism, as I added. This is the point of possible epistemological merger of animal ethics and anthropology Observation itself, learning about the Other who cohabitates with us in the world, and the respect for the Other despite their inaccessibility, is a fruitful ground for animal ethics.
