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This study examines how animal symbols (zoonyms) in literature reflect both ethological COPYRIGHT principles and cognitive processes. We combined © 2025 Original content from this work may be used under the terms Tinbergen’s ethological framework with cognitive of the creative commons attributes 4.0 License. metaphor theory to analyze French and Uzbek literary passages featuring animal imagery. Each instance of animal symbolism was categorized into one of five motivational bases – instinctive, emotional, archetypal, initiatory, or moral – guiding a cross-cultural comparison. Applying Tinbergen’s four questions (function, phylogeny, mechanism, ontogeny) revealed that many animal metaphors share biological roots (e.g., a universal fear of predators) yet carry culturally specific nuances. The findings indicate that literary zoo- symbols are not arbitrary; they arise from innate animal behaviors interpreted through human cognitive and cultural lenses. Ultimately, the research highlights an integrated ethological–cognitive approach to understanding how animal imagery conveys meaning, offering insights for future cross-cultural literary studies. Keywords: Zoo-symbols, cognitive metaphor, ethology, animal imagery, Tinbergen’s four questions, cross- cultural literature, symbolic motivation, French and Uzbek texts, archetypes, cultural semantics. Introduction: Animal symbols (zoonyms) pervade literary traditions as rich signs linking natural animal behavior to human meaning. From a cognitive– semiotic perspective, such zoo-symbols are not arbitrary; they reflect deep biological and cultural patterns. Tinbergen’s classic ethological framework— which asks about an animal trait’s adaptive function, European International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 70 https://eipublication.com/index.php/eijmrms and Management Studies European International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Management Studies phylogeny (evolutionary history), mechanism symbol’s denotation and connotation in context, then (causation), and ontogeny (development)—offers a traced its motivational roots. The analysis was guided systematic lens for this analysis (Tinbergen, 1963). We by concepts from cognitive semantics (e.g., Lakoff & adopt this ethological approach, combined with Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory) and ethology cognitive metaphor theory, to analyze how literary (Tinbergen, 1972). For example, we examined how the images of animals arise from and shape human predatory behavior of a lion (mechanism) is mapped thought. In particular, we classify each animal symbol’s onto human concepts of power or preparation, and motivational basis into instinctive (biological), how this mapping is conditioned by cultural archetypes. emotional, archetypal, initiatory (transformational), or Both quantitative (cataloging examples) and qualitative moral categories, as suggested by recent studies in (textual analysis) methods were employed to ensure a metaphor and cultural linguistics. These categories thorough cross-cultural comparison. capture how innate animal behavior and human