Let me see...how many ways I hate thee

There is something odious about baboons and monkeys as invective which does not apply to the rest of the animal kingdom.

Would it for example be racist to call a group of white people any of the following:

Lions
Jackals
Pigs
Polecats
Donkeys
Asses
Mice
Lice
Cockroaches
Wolves
Elphants
Sheep
Savages
Vermin
Hyaenas
Vultures
Tigers
Moles

There must be many more.

Now does the situation change if these terms are used in relation to black people?

One can even add words like pr!cks, @rsholes, motherf#2%s, settlers and so on.

But god forbid calling a (black) person a monkey, chimp or baboon...