Humans have their own ways of dividing each other after they're born.

[Far too many.]

...but it's a different perspective I hadn't considered. I suppose I homogenized your relationships with one another because you spoke so amicably about a bear.

[It takes him a moment to realize how strange it might sound to someone from Haru's world, something every human takes for granted in his from earliest childhood.]

So that a human could keep it as a pet. You've heard of this... or seen it, surely, even if it's only here. Animals kept by humans as livestock, or to do a particular job like herding or hunting, or for display, or companionship.