Benjamin (Animal Farm) Benjamin (Animal Farm) Benjamin is a donkey in George Orwell's novel "Animal Farm". He is also the oldest of all the animals (he is alive in the last scene of the novel). He is less straightforward than most characters in the novel, and a number of interpretations have been put forward to which social class he represents as regards to the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union. ("Animal Farm" is an allegory for the evolution of Communism in Russia, with each animal representing a different social class, e.g. Boxer represents the working class.) Benjamin also represents the old people of
Mytilaster minimus in the Canary Islands It forms colonies on hard substrates in coastal waters and in brackish water such as coastal lagoons. This species can colonise rather oligotrophic areas but in more eutrophic regions the larger Mediterranean edible mussel "Mytilus galloprovincialis" can be found among and, in places displace "M. minimus". The whelk "Stramonita haemastoma " is an important predator of "M. minimus" but where the invasive Lesspesian migrant "Brachidontes pharaonis" is found, the whelk prefers to prey on that species over the native bivalves and barnacles. "Mytilaster minimus" is threatened by the invasive "Brachidontes pharaonis" which is displacing it in