... thescene rather cute (Brown 19 92: 200ff; Dunbabin 19 99: 11 6, 13 3, 14 0 1) .The personal animals described in our sources mostly belonged to theelite. They are examples of how animals were individualized ... proven number was 11 ,000 animals, both wild and tame,over 12 3 days in 10 8–9 CE during Trajan’s triumph (Dio, 68 .15 .1) . An alter-native, and a supplement to increasing the number of animals, was ... resemblance tocontracts existed in the animal world, either between animals and animals orbetween animals and humans (cf. Sorabji 19 93: 12 1, 16 5). One example isthe act of ransom among ants, described...