Originally Posted by
ORAC
They do. Just as humans as a group are called people but can be differentiated as men and women, elephants (as with bovines and many other species) are termed as bull and cow.
And of course there are other differentiators - and they doubtless vary from language to language.
https://termcoord.eu/2018/02/male-an...-animal-names/
Valid point. I suppose that the forensics of the grammar here is whether the common name for our species is 'man' or 'human'. I was assuming the former, you the latter, and in hindsight you are probably correct. But when it comes to it the context is what needs to be considered and that should determine whether 'man' applies to the whole species or just the biological male of the species.