@futurebird Fascinating questions! Today's children don't meet animals first ...
As you speak of taboo: Many indigenous tribes believed that if you copy a face, the photographer/artist gets power over the soul of the people in the image. Perhaps something like this?
We have all these hands ... faces only from shaman-like figures, mixed human-animals, like "The sorcerer", Cave of the Trois-Frères, ca. 13,000 BCE, then a human wizard with horns.
Then, in 2005 they discovered a human portrait in
https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC/113544348968405007
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