Talk:Rafiki

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I personally would not call Rafiki anthropomorphised. Besides the ability to talk (and his habit of walking with a stick), he is really just a baboon. -- Supermorff 19:41, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I wouldn't call Rafiki or any of the characters in the Lion King, Brother Bear, or Jungle Book anthropomorphised. The only human characteristics they have are behavior, animals depicted as walking upright and such, like Baloo and Rafiki, actually can walk upright in real life. Further more there was no mysticism in Rafiki's discovery that Simba was alive. He is an animal, he simply smelled something that had been in contact with Simba detected his scent and deduced that he must still be alive.Rayfire 18:11, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

I think it is only "behaviour" that is necessary for anthropomorphization. The definition of this term is "the attribution of human characteristics and qualities to non-human beings, objects, natural, or supernatural phenomena." Are you denying that Rafiki has human characteristics and qualities? I'd say he is also quite shamanistic with his mystical fruit and sayings. -- Rmrfstar 00:20, 14 November 2006 (UTC)