I ended up using constructors to create instances of an object, and Object.create to enable inheritance when defining the object. function Person(name, bir

I ended up using constructors to create instances of an object, and Object.create to enable inheritance when defining the object. function Person(name, birthday, ...) { ... } Person.prototype = Object.create(Animal.prototype); See these for more: * http://outof.me/javascript-prototypal-inheritance-for-classical-developers/ http://outof.me/javascript-prototypal-inheritance-for-classi... * https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Introduction_to_Object-Oriented_JavaScript#Inheritance https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Intr... * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8453887/why-is-it-necessary-to-set-the-prototype-constructor http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8453887/why-is-it-necessa...