diff --git a/R/animate.R b/R/animate.R
index 8e2425ec8..e44712a1a 100644
--- a/R/animate.R
+++ b/R/animate.R
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ function(x, pause=0.25, main, n=1, vars=NULL, range=NULL, add=NULL, ...) {
 
 		for (reps in 1:n) {
 			for (i in 1:length(vars)) {
-				plot(x, vars[i], main=main[i])
+				plot(x, vars[i], main=main[i], ...)
 				grDevices::dev.flush()
 				grDevices::dev.hold()
 				Sys.sleep(pause)
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ function(x, pause=0.25, main, n=1, vars=NULL, range=NULL, add=NULL, ...) {
 		if (isTRUE(add)) n <- 1	
 		for (reps in 1:n) {
 			if ((reps == 1) && (isTRUE(add)) && (is.null(grDevices::dev.list()))) {
-				plot(ext(x), border=NA)
+				plot(ext(x), border=NA, ...)
 			}
 			for (i in 1:nrow(x)) {
 				addd <- if (is.null(add)) i != 1 else add