Do human-turned-mutants see themselves as animals?

[Metalwolf]

This is something that I have been wondering lately. Even though they keep their human memories, and often still remember/have human names, I've noticed that Spiderbytes, Splinter and Fishface seem to lean towards whatever it is that they resemble.

For example, Spiderbytes was yelling in that one episode 'I have rights as a spider!"

And Splinter considered the squirrels his 'cousins' or whatever in that Squirrelenoids episode.

With Rahzar, I'm not sure. He didn't like to be called dog, but that might change in later episodes.

And lastly, Fishface was hankering for a female fish mutant.




With animal turned mutants I can understand that they would still in a way consider themselves such, but why a human-turned-mutant, especially if they have clear memories of being human and can still make the distinction? It just comes off as weird to me, especially when it is more then just the expected instinctual behaviors (like a rat's instinctive fear of cats) for example.