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

You can't instantiate an interface. The functionality can be considered similar to that of an abstract class. You can have a reference to the interface but you don't create an object of interface. If you do something like this....

Animal a = new Animal(); The compiler will show an error- "Cannnot instantiate the type Animal".