This essay takes up practices of comparison and analogy between human populations and animals that have been so problematized in discussions of J. M. Coetzee’s work. Through readings of Der-rida and Haraway alongside German novelist Uwe Timm’s Morenga, it argues that analogical structures function as simultaneous differentia-tions and de-differentiations that allow for both similarities and differences to emerge. Far from collapsing differences, analogical think-ing in Timm’s novel allows for specificities to emerge, rendering the broad, generic category of the animal far more complex.