Socianimals is a card game about animals and families. The main goal of the game is to collect as many animals of the same family as you can. The more animals in the same family you collect the more points you score.
Every player starts with 5 cards in its hand. Every turn a player takes a card from a covered common deck (thus reaching 6 cards in hand) and then must play a card.
Once a card (an animal) is on the table another player can take it only if he has an animal of the same family. Once a player take a couple of animals from the same family those 2 cards must be put covered near the player who took them and they are part of his/her deck points.
Special cards can be played to steal/block/protect animals family(a couple or more couple of the same family).
—description from the designer