Configure categories page to use permalink and title?

are you trying to list all posts by category or just the category names?

So you created a page called animals.md for listing all posts with a category of animals and you want the title of that page to show on a page that lists all of the different categories?

how would the animals.md page be created? manually? maybe it could be part of a collection and you loop thru that to make the category list page?