Array declearation, Constructor

[iamcreasy]

Why Animal constructor is not being called by the declaration of the array? LINE 12

Isn't 10 instances of Animal class is being created with this line?

package javaapplication;

class Animal
{
    Animal() { System.out.println("Animal Constructor");}
}

public class Main
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {        
        Animal[] animal_obj = new Animal[10];
    }
}

[aspire1]

Isn't 10 instances of Animal class is being created with this line?

Nope, ten uninitialized reference variables of type Animal are being created.

[NormR1]

Creating an array only creates the array object. There are no Animal objects in it yet.
You need to fill the array with Animal objects, element by element.