range animal vs animate being

range animal and animate being both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
range animal	Yes	No	No	No
animate being	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, animate being is a hypernym of range animal; that is, animate being is a word with a broader meaning than range animal:

range animal: any animal that lives and grazes in the grassy open land of western North America (especially horses, cattle, sheep)
animate being: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Other hypernyms of range animal include animal, beast, brute, creature, fauna.

range animal (noun)	animate being (noun)
any animal that lives and grazes in the grassy open land of western North America (especially horses, cattle, sheep)	a living organism characterized by voluntary movement