Difference in Django object creation call

I'd like to know if there's a difference between the following two calls to create an object in Django

Animal.objects.create(name="cat", sound="meow")

and

Animal(name="cat", sound="meow")

I see both in test cases and I want to make sure I am not missing some开发者_StackOverflowthing.

thanks

The former also inserts a row in the database as well as creating the object.