'Animals' was an Allied programme of support for an increased level of operations by the local resistance forces against the occupying German forces in Greece (June/July 1943).

Undertaken within the overall compass of 'Mincemeat' to aid the 'Husky' (i) assault on Sicily, the operation took the form of co-ordinated attacks on rail and road communications in a programme designed to persuade the Axis powers that this presaged a major Allied descent on Greece. The operation was moderately successful, one of its most significant related successes being the 'Washing' destruction of the Asopos railway viaduct on 21 June by a party of six British and New Zealand operatives of the Special Operations Executive, and in its entirety the undertaking persuaded the Germans to move to Greece Generalleutnant Walter Krüger’s 1^st Panzerdivision, which was currently resting in France and could have been better employed on the Eastern Front.