Instantiating interfaces in Java

Question

I have this interface:

public interface Animal {
    public void Eat(String name);
}

And this code here implements the interface:

Answer 1

No it is not - you are instantiating a Dog, but since a Dog is an Animal, you can declare the variable to be an Animal. If you try to instantiate the interface Animal it would be:

Animal baby2 = new Animal();

Try that, and watch the compiler scream in horror :)