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Ignorance, probably. We seem to want to divide everything into plants and animals, even calling mushrooms (wrongly) plants. Amoeba are of the Kingdom Amoebozoea. Their relationship is confused, but they are thought to be simpler lifeforms than animals and fungi, but not as simple as plants. They are wrongly considered our first ancestors, but as we evolved from semi-plant material (actually semi-cell semi-plant material) this is incorrect.

Maybe we consider amoeba as an animal because it is thought to be our first ancestor, and most people believe we are not descended from fungal or bacterial matter.

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