Clearly, your end product is not supposed to look like a David Attenborough documentary.

The 5 animals aspect of shen serves to help you see the possible origin and purpose of the movements, in addition to unlocking many of the potential, hidden applications.
Eventually, you must internalise this knowledge and express it in application.

Certain movements are clearly emulating one kind of animal, whereas others may be one or another, relative to how you want to express the jing.

There is scope for interpretation.