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
Gluteus minimus (fossil) Gluteus minimus (fossil) Gluteus minimus is a fossil from the Upper Devonian of Iowa. It was first collected in 1902, but only described in 1975. Each animal appears as a bi-lobed lens up to , and almost all specimens share the same slight asymmetry. The species is of uncertain affinities, having been thought of as either a fish tooth or a brachiopod. Specimens of "G. minimus" were first collected by Stuart Weller in 1902, from the Maple Mill Shale near Maple Mill on the English River, Washington County, Iowa. The Upper Devonian Maple Mill Shale appears as a series of