Is a bug an animal?

I would say an animal falls under mammals and a bug falls under insects

You don’t have to say. Animals are mammals and bugs are insects, categorically.

Bugs are animals. They fall under the kingdom Animalia. Mammalia is a Class, just as Insecta is a Class under which insects fall. As a reminder to all, it goes:

Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
species

And yes, there are all sorts of new things like domain, subclass, superfamily, subfamily, infraorder, tribe, subgenus, infralegion, etc….

True bugs are traditionally placed in the Order Hemiptera.

so remind us how many kingdoms are they?

theres kingdom animalia, kingdom plantae, kingdom protista, kingdom fungi and kingdom eukaryocyte.

thanks. You are smarter than a fifth grader. LOL just joking. Thanks I totally forgot bout that

so in the case of the emporer dragonfly :
Animals
Arthropods
Insects
Dragonflies
Aeshnoidea
Darners
Anax
Emperor Dragonfly

the species is the emporer dragonfly, the genus is anax, the family is darners, the order is aeshnoidea, the class is insects (subclass dragonflies), phylum anthropod and kingdom animal.

so do organizations sympathetic towards animals actually discriminate against certain animals? Seems like they only protect the cute ones.

the true organizations don’t discriminate, but the promotional posters always feature the cute ones. but that’s just good advertising.