An example of anthropomorphism in public scientific discourse,
"We feel rubbish if we eat a massive meal just before we go to bed or immediately if we wake up. The same is going to be true for mosquitoes as well. Taking a huge blood meal which is kind of like drinking a bath of soup if you are a human, and doing that a strange time of day when our circadian clocks aren't expecting it isn't going to be so good for our health – better than starving, but not great. Same is probably true for the parasites [hosted by some mosquitoes]."
Prof. Sarah Reece (Professor of Evolutionary Parasitology at the University of Edinburgh) was talking on an episode ('Don't Bite Me!') of Curious Cases.
Perhaps mosquitoes do feel rubbish, but I am not sure we can every know whether that is true.
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The comparison of a blood-mean to a bath of soup is an example of how making a comparison with something on a more human scale.
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A document listing a wide range of examples of science analogies, similes, metaphors and other comparisons, drawn from diverse sources, can be downloaded using this link: 'Creative Comparisons: Making Science Familiar through Language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts.'
Read: 'What it is like to be a mosquito'
