The concept of an animals as the object of a crime provided for by art. 245 Criminal Code of the RF

The article analyzes the concept of an animal as the subject of a crime under Art. 245 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The author is critical of the approach that has emerged in law enforcement practice that the subject of the crime in question is only higher vertebrates, pointing out that this contradicts both the norms of humanity and the understanding of objects of the animal world contained in the regulatory legal acts of Russia, and proposes to consolidate the legislative definition animals to form a uniform approach to understanding the definition in question.