Well i'm not sure whether this means what was posted in the link of the OP, even if the dna may be the same - we 'humans' share almost 100 percent of the dna code with worms, it just depends on which pairs of the chromosomes are switched on and off, chemically.
We are not the
successors of apes. Darwin never said this b.t.w..
Apes and us have the same predecessors, way back in the past.
And of course humans are 'animals', just of 'human' species. Within millions of other species on earth. I am always astonished how one can see this differently.
I have a very intelligent friend, know him since decades and thought i would 'know' him, in a way. When it turned out eating our Pizza in an open air restaurant, i suddenly realized he did not know all those blinking lights in the sky were other suns, just like our sun. Of course, we seldomly need this knowledge to follow our daily routine, or being a banker