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"I am not an animate being! Well, okay, I'thou kind of an animal. My features are beast-like, I don't wear clothes, and I smell a bit outdoorsy most of the time. But I have a job, and I talk and stuff besides, so when I say I'm not an animal I think technically I'thou on solid ground."

They're animals who call up, talk and act generally similar human beings. The Funny Fauna has well-nigh all the mannerisms of a human. Sometimes, but their appearance distinguishes them from the hairless primates who draw them. Indeed, one of the chief incentives in using such characters are that they are more than distinctive, and hence easier to draw, as recognizable individuals than ordinary humans. Like the Civilized Brute, they can be anywhere on the Sliding Scale of Beast Advice.

On the Sliding Calibration of Anthropomorphism, these fall somewhere between the Civilized Fauna and the Creature Human. As there tin exist some confusion between all the anthropomorphism tropes, hither's a guideline:

1. The Speech-Dumb Animal, Talking Fauna, or Civilized Beast has priorities and motivations that are yet that of an animal despite their ability to speak. In other words, imagine your pet knowing English language and you should get the thought.
2. Funny Animals are bipedal even if their species is non naturally so, most Funny Animate being birds accept Feather Fingers, whether their wings look completely like wings or look (to varying degrees) similar arms. Some Funny Animals tin can shift betwixt using two legs and four. In most situations, they can be replaced past a human and the plot would be more often than not identical. A good case from the Scooby-Doo cartoons: Scooby-Doo is a Speech-Impaired Animal. Scrappy-Doo, who might equally well be a person in a dog conform, is a Funny Animate being.
3. The Beast Man is less anthropomorphism and more zoomorphism: instead of taking an brute and giving information technology more than human traits, you lot take a human being and give them more animal traits. Why? Well, this is usually considering Beast Man tends to come with Intelligent Gerbil: need to come up with an conflicting or fantastical race? Just accept an creature and use information technology as inspiration. Enquire yourself this question: Are they considered to be a cat/canis familiaris/lizard or are they considered to be a distinct species in their ain correct? If the former, so information technology's likely this trope, if the latter, information technology's likely Animal Man. For a more detailed analysis, refer to the analysis page.

Practically any drawing series from The Golden Age of Blitheness, or video games aimed at children younger than 13 accept at to the lowest degree one such character.

Funny Animal is the technical term used by cartoonists to refer to the genre and characters. Note that the "funny" in the championship isn't literal: Funny Animals tin be serious characters too, and an animal who is funny is non necessarily a Funny Animal.

Also notation that this is a graphic symbol trope, meaning that the character isn't supposed to be a human + animate being features In-Universe. For that, see Animorphism or Half-Human Hybrid.

Frequently overlaps with Animate being Superheroes. May live in a World of Funny Animals. May suffer from Carnivore Defoliation and Furry Confusion.

For further tropes pertaining to funny animals, furries and the tropes that appear frequently in their genres, encounter Funny Animal Tropes. Compare Intellectual Animal. Closely related to Beast Fable, which is the ancient form of the genre.

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• Elsie the Cow was a pop mascot for Borden-brand dairy products in the 20th century. In at least one of her incarnations, she was speaking, living in a house, and wearing clothes, and her son was riding a bicycle.

    Anime and Manga

• Beastars: The cadre premise of the series is exploring the idea of a world inhabited by funny animals taken to its logical conclusion. Nearly every single globe-building decision serves this fundamental concept... except Imaginary Chimeras... but we don't talk about those.
• Pokémon
  • In the anime, Meowth of the Team Rocket trio taught himself "human talk" and how to stand on his hind legs, all for the dearest of a female Meowth named Meowzie who said that a human could do more for her than anything he could (as in, the nutrient, housing and adoration), just to be rejected as now she considers him a freak.
  • In The Electric Tale of Pikachu, a story arc centers effectually the kitten of the very same Meowzie; she'southward found in a Poké Ball the gang purchases (unable to get captured herself, the mother pops her kitten into an unsold brawl to ensure that whoever finds her volition requite her a skilful home). When Team Rocket, and thus Meowth, come around making problem, Meowth meets this kitten and instantly sees her mother in her face and shining money. And then she tells him it'due south creepy how he acts like he's a human. Oh heartbreak.
  • Mewtwo seems quite human-like, but his psychic powers make that easy. In Pokémon Adventures, he actually has Blaine'southward Dna and is thus a Half-Human being Hybrid.
• Princess Tutu's Mr. True cat looks exactly equally his name implies, and occasionally meows and cleans himself with his paws, but is otherwise a spousal relationship-obsessed ballet instructor. While he is the most prominent one and has the most screen time, at that place are other guest characters that besides fall under this trope.
• Shirokuma Cafe is pretty much about this, also every bit their interactions with humans.
  • Inverted with Mr. Shoebill from Episode eight. He does not talk or human activity anthropomorphosized, but he is even so sentient as the Funny Animal characters and is the editor in principal of a local food magazine.
  • Is lampshaded in one episode where a nameless human being (Nicknamed Mr. Necktie) visits from out of town. And is bewildered that animals can walk and talk and tries to study them. (Despite information technology's been shown that Funny Animals are everywhere in that universe)

• In the first anime accommodation of Dragon Ball anthropomorphic Funny and Talking Animals are mutual. Oolong (a pig) and Puar (a cat) start off as two of Goku's close companions, and the King of the World (information technology'southward a Fictional Earth) is a domestic dog. With a mustache.
• Usagi-chan de Cue!!: Benten Chou is an irritable little runt who was merged with a dog. Dissimilar the nekomimi, his beast course has face fur, an elongated snout, and a domestic dog's nose in addition to canine ears and tail.

    Asian Animation

• In Happy Heroes, there are several funny animals throughout the series, such as the anthropomorphic cows on Planet Xing and the domestic dog and true cat aliens from Planets Wangcai and Miaomei respectively from Season 7 (though the latter grouping has multiple moments of Hirsuite Reminder).

    Comic Books

• Looney Leo from Astro City is a direct Expy of Tawky Tawny. A Golden Age theatrical cartoon graphic symbol brought to life past a mad scientist'southward machine, he's had a rough time of it, but seems to be getting by okay these days.
• Biffo the Bear and Big Eggo from The Beano.
• DC Comics' Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!, which contained several Continuity Nods to the other Funny Fauna comics DC published.
• In Circles, species is purely aesthetic.
• Korky the True cat from The Dandy.
• Marvel'due south Howard the Duck is pretty grouchy near being "trapped in a world he never made!" and is mostly just trying to become by among united states of america weird hairless apes.

• Ane of the primeval known funny brute characters would have to be Mr.Jack created past Jimmy Swinnerton which ran from 1903 - 1935.
• The titular Rupert Bear from, um, Rupert Acquit.
• The titular duo of Sam & Max: Freelance Police. Some characters, like Sal from the video games, also qualify.
• Mr. Tawky Tawny is a very civilized version of this in the original Helm Marvel. His origin has varied over the years, only he's generally pretty cheerful about being a humanoid tiger living amid humans.
• Superlópez: The Poet Ant is a humanoid radioactive ant from El castillo de arena (The Sand Castle).
• Mickey the Monkey from The Topper.

    Films — Animation

• The chickens in Chicken Run are difficult to categorize—the humans treat them just like whatever other chickens, only near of them clothing at least i article of clothing and the stupidest one is capable of knitting.
• The Great Mouse Detective: Apart from their size and Mouse World, the bandage could exist replaced by humans and it wouldn't make any difference at all. Well, except for Toby who is a canis familiaris and Felicia who is a true cat.
• Characters such as Groucho Barx, Olivia Ostrich, Schnoz Ali, Zebra, and Dualot in Journey Through the Jungle of Words.
• The cast of Kung Fu Panda. In item, the characters use their animal attributes in their fighting styles, similar Crane's wings or Po's trunk fat.
• Disney'south Robin Hood (1973) is the story of Robin Hood but with anthropomorphic creature characters.
• The motion picture Sing consists of an entire bandage of anthropomorphic animals including a koala, a sheep, some pigs, a gorilla, amongst many others. These animals live in a urban center, put on shows, and seldom accept any furry reminders or even behavioral quirks/gags related to whatever of their species, save for Ash'south quills (her existence a porcupine) being a slight nuisance to others.
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Poesy has Spider-Ham, who, unlike the other Spiders, is an anthropomorphic squealer who was pulled from an Alternate Tooniverse. Because of this, he likewise happens to operate on Toon Physics, which he can weaponize to great effect.
• In Zootopia the bones premise is that human being beings never existed and not-human mammals evolved to develop sapience, bipedal locomotion, opposable thumbs, and the ability to speak, ending up as civilized animals with very human-like lifestyles and society merely withal drawing much more heavily on their animalistic traits than is usually seen with this trope.

    Films — Live-Action

• The rabbits in HOP walk on two legs, wear clothes, alive in houses, and can communicate with humans.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • Deconstructed past Rocket Raccoon. He'south a walking, talking raccoon that can stand on ii legs, hold and burn down heavy weaponry, pilot spacecraft, so on because he had multiple painful experiments performed on him in the past.

    Rocket: I didn't ask to get made! I didn't ask to be torn apart and put back together over and over and turned into some... some picayune monster!

  • Played straight with Howard the Duck in his handful of brusk appearances.

    Literature

• Cheese the Dog and Rare Cheese from Takashi Yanase's Anpanman series are dogs that human activity like humans, just aren't fully capable of speaking like the other characters in the series.

• Black Dogs has Funny Dogs, Ferrets, Wolverines, Badgers, Polar Bears, Hyenas, Giant Basis Sloths, and it is implied that humans are merely another breed of Funny Brute that resemble monkeys.
• Brave Story has quite a big population of these. Of course, they're looked down upon by some.

• Fairest of All: Animals in general seem to be capable of speech and human-like thought in the setting. Brogan, an otter, is the 1 that appears virtually but fifty-fifty some ants speak and assist out in return for being done a favor in the past (along with a jaguar).
• The characters in the Geronimo Stilton serial, who are mice merely human activity like humans. The main character, for example, runs a paper agency. Interestingly, though the beginning books seemed to indicate it was a Mouse World, taking identify largely on a fictional island and with the characters being scared of proportionally-sized cats, later books point that information technology's supposed to be "Globe, but everyone is a mouse", with characters visiting locations like London and Paris.
• Hilda and Richie are 2 cartoon foxes wearing wearing apparel and living in a mansion.
• Katt vs. Dogg is set in a world populated past animal people, and not just cats and dogs (though there are those).
• Koziołek Matołek. Oddly enough, in the first few illustrations he is plain an ordinary goat like the others, and suddenly becomes anthropomorphic one time he goes on his quest.
• The nursery characters living in Reading in the Nursery Crime series include bears, tortoises and hares, with the bears at least living in human guild (albeit with some prejudice and strict dietary restrictions).
• The Legend of Podkin One-Ear is a fantasy novel nearly rabbits. It wouldn't require much of a rewrite to make it well-nigh hobbits.
• Findus the true cat in Pettson and Findus is this, he's basically a modest child in a cat'southward body.
• Pride Wars: The Singas are a race of bipedal lions.

• All of the animals characters (With the exception of the Mcduff books) that appear in books made by Rosemary Wells.
• Spectral Shadows has a bunch of these in Series eleven. Going off the Synopsis Page on the Live Journal site, they're likewise slated to announced in other serials.
• The world of Alan Dean Foster'south Spellsinger novels fall under this trope, with species that lack manipulative appendages (such as well-nigh hoofed mammals) falling more under Civilized Fauna instead.
• The main character of The Straggler's Mask is some kind of a rabbit... dog... matter.
• In Summer in Orcus, the population of Orcus includes a nation of anthropomorphic birds. There was also a nation of anthropomorphic dogs, just they were wiped out by Zultan in the backstory.
• Wicked makes an important stardom betwixt animals, who are your average unintelligent beings, and Animals, who are this.
• The Wild Ones features an entire city filled with animals who tin can talk, wear clothes, run shops, and even be part of a gang. Yet said city takes place within a much larger human city, and the animals frequently take to worry virtually traps the humans put out and getting captured by fauna catchers.
• Afterward parts in the story The Wind in the Willows like Toad'due south motorcar and Toad Hall.

    Live-Action TV

• Adventures in Wonderland 's White Rabbit counted as this. Oddly enough, the March Hare in the aforementioned evidence was more than humanoid.

• In the spin-off to Kabouter Plop called Plop & de Peppers all three of the animal friends that is with Plop appear this way.

• The Magicians (2016): Fillory has many, of every mutual species. Plain many of them also take relationships with human being Fillorians.

    Music

• With the exception of vocalist Ranko, every BUTAOTOME member has an anthropomorphic fauna persona: Paprika is a cat, Comp is a polar bear and Ranko no Ane is a pink rabbit.
• Kids Praise: Charity Churchmouse is simultaneously a mouse and a gospel vocaliser. She lampshades this at i point:

  Psalty: My dog is flying the plane?!

  Charity: I'yard a mouse. What's the departure?

  • Risky Rat, the become-to villain for the series, also appears to be this. In his visual appearances, he's covered in fur and has a tail.

    Mythology and Faith

• Older Than Dirt: The Ancient Egyptians apparently liked funny animals. The story of The Mouse As Vizier features talking animals who have a very human political system, and several papyri describe animals such as mice, cats, hyenas, antelope, crocodiles, donkeys, monkeys, and lions playing board games, using weapons, drinking out of goblets, and playing musical instruments. Except for standing on their hind legs, they aren't anthropomorphic at all. And they completely ignore natural predator-prey relationships. They even herd livestock and ride chariots pulled by normal animals.
• A fancy Sumerian lyre, dated to c. 2600 BCE, features inlay scenes that describe funny animals. A bear, jackal, and donkey play music, while a lion and an antelope serve beverages. Except for standing on their hind legs and having hands, they look like normal animals.

    Pinball

• In Police Force, well-nigh everyone is a Funny Brute, wearing picayune to no wear and exhibiting natural torso proportions.

    Podcasts

• Interstitial Actual Play has the party visit a Sonic the Hedgehog world and thus change class accordingly. Marche becomes a Cockatiel, Edith becomes a mouse, and Criss Angel becomes a bat. Subverted with Roxanne, who is already an anthropomorphic domestic dog-person. She becomes human.

    Print Media

• The Onion published an splendid article based on this trope in the editorial section, titled "Cease Anthropomorphizing Me", written by Gerald the Dog.

    Professional Wrestling

• The Estonian Thunderfrog. He's a wrestling frog!

    Puppet Shows

• Kermit (and other frogs), Piggy (and other pigs), Fozzie, Rowlf, and assorted other characters on The Muppet Evidence. (Scooter, Bunsen, the band and the Whatnots are probably meant to be humanish, Statler, Waldorf and the Swedish Chef are definitely Muppet humans, and Gonzo is ... whatever.)
• Le Bébête Show, a puppet prove that satirized French politics of The '80s with a number of puppets being inspired past characters from The Muppet Show.
• Topo Gigio is an Italian franchise very popular in the Latin Earth almost a funny mouse who uses different kind of dress (including pajamas and a sleeping chapeau), lives in a house with proportionally fabricated furniture and even has a miniature pet cat.

    Tabletop Games

• In Wanderhome, the role player characters and the NPC "kith" are animal-folk, who are depicted in the artwork as bipedal, capable of manual manipulation, and of human being intelligence. Insects and other bugs stand in equally the Fantastic Fauna Analogue.
• This ◊ Dungeons & Dragons features an unusual example where the Funny Animal is just a normal fauna who acts similar a human in a world of humans. Bearington had maxed out his disguise skill to successfully make himself appear homo, and his barefaced skill to permit him imitation speaking English language by growling and gesturing. He later hired a butler and gave him a magic item that permit him speak Behave so he could human activity as a translator. Bearington would eventually be knighted by the queen for his heroic deeds. At the following banquet celebrating his knighthood, a random invitee was the first and just person to ever brand a loftier enough Perception roll to encounter through the disguise. He was arrested by the castle guards for his outrageous insult against the venerable Sir Bearington.

    Toys

• Certain characters from GoGo's Crazy Basic are this trope. Case in point: Lucky Rab, an anthropomorphic rabbit.

    Video Games

• Information technology'd be easier to list the few human characters in Creature Crossing as the sheer number of examples of funny animals in each entry in the series (including Japan-merely villagers) put together could possibly fill upwardly half of this page alone (let's merely say the game'south title is well deserved). The but homo(s) in the games are the Player Character(southward) and presumably their parents.
• Most of the characters in the Banjo-Kazooie series are this, including the titular acquit and bird, Captain Blubber & Boggy.
• Beyond Good & Evil has these for most of the NPC'due south: Pig-men, shark-men, walrus-men, etc. Taking pictures of them with the camera names their species in the form of "[Species] Sapien." Beyond Adept & Evil ii, a prequel to Beyond Good and Evil reveals that they were genetically engineered slave labor designed to withstand hostile alien environments.
• Barbarous: Paws of Fury, a game that came out during the 16-bit fighting game boom, has a cast entirely made up of funny animals (nearly of them Half Dressed Cartoon Animals)
• Bug!. Near of the arthropod enemies in the game aren't, though.
• The Mimigas from Cave Story are rabbit-people. Other than subsisting on flowers (and non wearing pants) they don't human action any dissimilar than their human neighbors. (And at least two of them are humans who were magically transformed.)
• Crash Bandicoot, well, to an extent, with Ripper Roo and Tiny Tiger who averts this somewhat.
• In Creepy Castle, a good part of the cast are bugs like the hero, Moth.
• Crusader Kings 2: Any number of Good Bad Bugs involving Glitterhoof and Equus caballus M.D., a pair of horses added as randomly generated characters in the Conclave and Reaper'southward Due DLCs. By abusing a couple of loopholes in the rules ^note They both accept a "Equus caballus" trait that is supposed to forbid them from being landed or marrying and producing offspring with nominally homo characters, but this doesn't terminate you from educating children in Horse culture and and then landing them, nor Catholic rulers from nominating them as heirs to bishoprics., you tin generate entire dynasties of horses that are every bit playable equally any other, leading to such utter lunacy as Empress Rainbow Dash of the (restored) Roman Empire.

• In Inherit the Earth the unabridged bandage is like this, more or less, due to humans beingness extinct.
• Lugaru and its sequel Overgrowth features a cast full of these, and it's heavily implied that the game takes place after the fall of mankind.
• In Odin Sphere, the Pooka are rabbit-folk the size of dwarves that talk and walk similar humans. It makes sense seeing as they're really humans who were cursed into that grade.
• In Overcooked!, many of the unlockable chefs are animal people, such equally cats and dogs, bears, lizards, and a raccoon in a wheelchair.
• Paladins:
  • Pip the Rogue Alchemist is a vulpin, a species of humanoid fennec foxes who hail from a small agronomical village called Brightmarsh. While most vulpines are family-oriented and go on to themselves, Pip is an orphan with a desire to adventure outside his hometown.
  • Pepper, a Distaff Counterpart to Pip, added in Battle Laissez passer 3. Pepper comes from an alternate universe, and came into Pips Universe while he was experimenting in his workshop. While she is ostensibly merely a very fancy peel for Pip, Pepper has unique character icons on related emotes and on the gameplay HUD, something no other character peel does. Because of this, the game treats the 2 as two separate characters.
  • Moji is a leipori, a humanoid rabbit species who are attuned to nature. While the residue of the leipori fled to the forests to avert getting involved in the war raging beyond the Realm, Moji took it upon herself to summon the swell nature spirits to defend the world.
    • Humorously, she gets really excited about meeting Pip, complementing his fur and tail.
• Penguin Diner: Penny and the customers are all penguins who wear clothing, and in the sequel likewise, chefs are as well a affair and they aren't penguins, the penguins have been seen watching TV, ordering off menus and paying according to their satisfaction.
• Morgana from Persona 5 is a Talking True cat that sits in chairs, picks locks, shows you lot how to make thief tools like smoke bombs, and learns to exist an auto mechanic in his spare time. In the Mental World of the Palace, he also turns into an anthropomorphized form that walks on two legs, fights with swords and slingshots, and wears a bandanna and a Utility Chugalug.

• Several NPCs in Shovel Knight are anthropomorphized versions of such animals like horses, deer, peacocks, goats, roosters, frogs, hedgehogs, and rams. Shovel Knight himself may or may non be an anthropomorphic fish.
• Sly Cooper: Everybody— most are humanoid animals, with some variants every bit deemed stylistically appropriate. The Contessa is the greatest difference, being a spider-centaur creature, while Arpeggio the parrot and Sir Raleigh the frog are essentially unmodified animals.
• Sonic the Hedgehog stars diverse Funny Animate being characters who live alongside humans. Sonic'due south "animal friends" from the classic games are the exception (they're Partially Civilized Animals).
• Tail Concerto, Solatorobo and Fuga: Melodies of Steel are ready in a earth of floating continents in the sky, populated by canis familiaris-people and cat-people. While they by and large human action like humans, the dogs are prone to chewing on bones and their national pastime seems to be frisbee-communicable.
• Toontown Online is an MMORPG based around Funny Animals.
• Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, much like Crash Bandicoot, both of them starring obscure Australian mammals.
• The majority of monsters in Undertale are anthropomorphized animals like goats, dogs, cats, fish, etc. Some of them play the trope fully direct while others are basically semi intelligent but still act mostly animal.
• Urban Rivals: Most of the cast is homo, but all of the Jungo clan falls nether this.
• Cuphead: Ribby and Croaks and Porkrind are examples of funny animals. The remainder of the animal bosses are CivilizedAnimals, since their species informs their behavior and setting.
• Roughly half the playable characters in Rivals of Aether: Zetterburn and Forsburn (lions), Wrastor (Bird People), Absa (caprine animal), Kragg (rhinoceros beetle), Maypul (raccoon), Clairen (panther), Ranno (frog), Mollo (moth), and Pomme and Olympia (mice). Orcane, Etalus, Sylvanos, Eliana, and Hodan are exceptions, being Civilized Animals instead (or an Uplifted Creature in Sylvanos's case). Ori is a Cartoon Creature, and Shovel Knight is... information technology's unclear.

    Visual Novels

• Squeaker in Fleuret Blanc, a dog who acts exactly similar a human being except for the occasional bark. Le Neuvieme fifty-fifty says he is a "perfect French gentleman". Nobody except Kant finds this odd.

    Spider web Animation

• Craven and Moose are these, though they likewise appear to be fabricated of metallic.

    Webcomics

• '32 Kick-Upward is a Fighting Serial that takes place in a globe of 1930's-style funny animals living alongside humans.
• In Alice and the Nightmare, Rougina is served by a pack of fluffy, bipedal, talking and clothes-wearing rabbits.
• Bug Pudding, with its inspiration firmly rooted in The Golden Age of Animation, breathes this trope.
• Caribbean Bluish 'south primary casts consist of nekomimis, hybrids, and a talking cat. Everyone else is just a generic guy and gal.
• Exercise Makes Perfect 'due south Funny animals are heart stage.
• CHEVALIER is a romantic fantasy take chances that features a cast of Funny Animals.
• In Corgi Quest, anthropomorphic corgis seem to have filled the niche that humans normally fill.

• Carson the Muskrat from Dork Tower. He doesn't wear clothes ^note except for uniforms at piece of work or costumes at conventions, but otherwise uses computers, gets jobs, drives cars, and functions socially like everyone else.
• The Dynamite Twins and Friends. Many of the characters, fifty-fifty in the larger KGC Universe as a whole, are animals. Well-nigh of them have piddling to no clothing.

• Nearly of the cast in Endtown, created from humans due to a mutating plague.
• In Everyday Heroes, Summer's classmate is has a cow-like head and tail. She and her male parent are actually from another planet, withal no i comments on their appearance. Discussion of God has information technology that other conflicting races autumn nether this trope (for instance, the "Dogs Of War").
• The Eyeof Ramalach 's world is populated with anthropomorphic animals, most notably serpants and raccoons.
• Fillbert from Fillbert, a cat, is hired for multiple jobs, and at 1 indicate says they don't exercise catlike things while updating their resumé.
• The Fuzzy Princess is almost a agglomeration of funny animals from a distant kingdom living with humans.
• George the Dragon is a Funny Animal, surrounded past Funny Animals.
• In Harkovast, every graphic symbol is a talking brute person, with each nation being made up of a detail fauna. The but possible exception is the Nameless, whose species is indeterminate at the moment due to their all covering armour and helmets.
• Horndog: Creator Isaac 1000. Baranoff specifically states that Horndog and Here Wolf are "Funny Aminal" comics.
• The KA Mics Mr. & Mrs. Rockhound cartoons have anthropomorphic dogs in place of humans.
• Knighthood follows Joy'due south adventures to becoming a knight in the Las Lindas, which is populated with anthropomorphic animals.
• Lackadaisy is about a down-on-its-luck criminal offence gang in Prohibition-era St. Louis. Oh, and they're all anthropomorphic cats.
• The story of Las Lindas follows Mora Linda'southward ongoing efforts to run a dairy farm. All the characters are anthropomorphic animals ranging from bovines to cats to rabbits.

• Outside the occasional human, the unabridged world of Rascals is populared with anthropomorphic animals with a focus on cats and rabbits.
• In Realm of Owls the owl people's appearance follows owl anatomy for the most part, but they accept some human-like attributes, such as hands instead of wings. Information technology is also hard to tell genders apart, for the differences are every bit minimal as with most of the real-life owl species.

• Bun-Bun and Percy the Wooly Mammoth from Sluggy Freelance are half-way between this and Talking Animals. Percy even had his own psychiatric business concern.
• Three Jaguars. The jaguars are also personifications of the artist'due south impulses.
• Tinaofthe S 'southward world is populated with anthropomorphic animals.
• Tiny Kitten Teeth- In that location are animals that actually exist as animals, alongside funny animals, normally no distinction betwixt species aside from stature. Don't effort to make logic of it.
• In Urban Underbrush, the two rabbits dress in clothing and run an explosive concern. The residual of the animals are Talking Animals.
• VG Cats: Leo and Aeris are a pair of anthropomorphic cats. Their families are as well anthropomorphic cats.

• When The Whiteboard started, only the main bandage were funny animals, while almost all of the rest of the cast were no-neck bubbleheaded humans with no distinctive facial features. The artist later experimented with more realistic humans, simply then around 2012 went with the entire bandage being funny animals, converting fan favorites Larry and Daryl from bubbleheads to squirrels without any commentary on the change In-Universe.

• In Yokoka'southward Quest, Yfa's siblings are nomadic animals who can talk, wear some clothes or accessories, stay in a furnished tent, ain and presumably read books, make medicines, so on. Yfa's family are subsequently encountered living in an inn that the parents own and run.

    Web Original

• In The Incommunicable Homo, Dom Coqui is a iv foot tall talking frog.
• In Child Fourth dimension Storytime, the teddy carry brothers Pink Carry, Ruby-red Bear, and Dark-green Carry, and their grandmother Abuela Carry, are depicted equally talking and bipedal.
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• In the Paradise setting, humans are randomly, permanently transformed into Funny Animals (and occasionally gender-changed) by causes unknown. A Weirdness Censor renders these changes Invisible to Normals, who continue to see the Inverse every bit their original homo selves (and genders), leading to a Masquerade on the part of the Inverse in order to keep from being committed to mental institutions or worse. Somewhen the Weirdness Censor comes down, leading to The Unmasqued World.
• "Funny" may be a chip of a misnomer for Ruby Quest and Nan Quest, but they do feature animals who for all intents and purposes human action as humans.
• CollegeHumor: Deconstructed and Played for Laughs with "Narnia Dogs Can't Stand up", where the titular dogs not but endeavor to stand but do other man things even though information technology's really unnecessary. When the children aren't looking they go right back to doing things like sniffing each other'due south butts or licking themselves.
• Plonqmas: Applies to Plonq and all the other characters except for Santa Claus, who is the only man in these stories. They wearable clothes, walk upright, consume human food, take man jobs, and generally conduct similar humans.

    Western Blitheness

• Every grapheme in Alfred J. Kwak, barringa rather brute-similar man.

• Alvin and the Chipmunks not only walk on their hind legs like humans do, they're the size of humans equally well. Averted a flake as of the alive action films, shrinking them downwards to actual size and ofttimes running on all fours like existent chipmunks practice.
• All citizens of Elmore in The Amazing World of Gumball are Funny Animals/Food/Objects/Whatevers. Species is reflected in their behavior to various degrees, but all of them live in houses, have jobs, and transport their children to school like humans.
• The cast of The Angry Beavers. Even the humans in the show are treated as such.
• Like Around the World with Willy Fog, Around the World in 80 Days (Burbank Animation) takes place in a world of anthropomorphic animals. Different Willy Fog, however, Passepartout is a monkey and Phileas Fogg is a fox.

• Many characters in Bojack Horseman including the eponymous equine. Plenty of humans too though.

• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers straddles the line between this and Talking Animal, with a healthy dose of Furry Confusion for expert measure. The main bandage usually falls squarely into Funny Animate being territory, though at times might slip into Talking Brute (Chip and Dale more than the others, every bit they volition sometimes run on all fours like actual chipmunks. Monterey and Gadget about never behave like actual mice). Most other rodents in the series are also portrayed adequately consistently as Funny Animal. Cats generally tread both sides, while dogs and almost everything else tend to exist Talking Animal exclusively. Furry Confusion occurs with pretty much everything, especially fish and incidental or background characters.
• Most of the "core" stars of the Classic Disney Shorts - Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, then on. Pluto would be an exception, all the same; as Mickey's pet canis familiaris, he's a Nearly Normal Fauna.
• Count Duckula. Lampshaded in the Who'south on Commencement? episode:

  DUCKULA: You mean human sacrifice?

  YUBI: Well, almost human sacrifice, give or have a feather.

• Backbone the Cowardly Dog. While anybody acknowledges that Courage is a dog and unremarkably treat him as such, other Funny Brute characters get by with no reference at all to their species. Courage's own characterization as a dog slips sometimes. Often the conflicting/evil entity/villain of the day (who is sometimes too a talking animal) volition treat Courage on the same level every bit the humans. Often past trying to kill them.
• Brian Griffin of Family Guy usually falls squarely into this category, albeit with occasional Talking Animal moments (specially in the first RUN of the series, where they were more frequent).
• Rex the cockroach from Gawayn seems to be somewhere between this and Civilised Animal

• British children's series Become Jetters features an anthropomorphic disco-grooving unicorn named Ubercorn every bit the mentor and leader of the otherwise all-man Go Jetters squad.
• Many Hanna-Barbera characters from the 1960s and some later on are Funny Brute characters. Including Huckleberry Hound, Quick Describe McGraw, Secret Squirrel, Touché Turtle and Dum Dum and then many others.
  • Yogi Bear, Top Cat, Snagglepuss, Wally Gator, and Magilla Gorilla are straddle the line between Funny Animal and Civilized Fauna. They vesture apparel and tin communicate with humans in English, only are otherwise office and are treated as members of their respective species. Subsequently Crossover shows put everyone firmly in the Funny Fauna category.
• Harvey Beaks: With the exceptions of Fee and Foo, most of the bandage is some sort of anthropomorphic creature.
• I Am Not an Animal. The animals were genetically engineered to talk and were raised with glory magazines photo-shopped then one-half the people had creature heads. They escaped and didn't realize that animals aren't supposed to talk.
• While 90% of the Jimmy Two-Shoes cast are monsters and demons, this trope is surprisingly common. The two well-nigh prominent existence the Weavils and the Schwartzentiger. We've too seen pandas, a goat, a rhino, a crab, and an ape.
• On Joe and Jack, Jack is a cat, only walks and behaves only like a male child and in applied terms seems more similar a brother of Joe of well-nigh the same historic period, or possibly a little younger. His character model even looks a lot like Joe, except different coloring, whiskers, cat ears and a tail. Enhancing the resemblance is that Joe wears a full-body costume of an animal all the time.

• Let's Get Luna!: Everyone is a funny animate being, a celestial body, or a Cartoon Brute. Specifically, Leo, Carmen, and Andy are a wombat, a butterfly, and a frog, respectively.
• Looney Tunes:
  • Porky Hog is consistently prove living and working among humans, with A Corny Concerto even giving Elmer'due south usual role as the one hunting Bugs. Porky is probably like this because he was created before than most other Looney Tunes (who tend to exist Civilized Animals), in an era when Disney had fabricated Funny Animals universal.
  • Daffy Duck varies a lot between a Civilized Creature living in the woods or a pond and a Funny Animal living among humans, frequently as Porky's neighbor, partner, or like.
  • Bugs Bunny straddles the line between Funny Animal and Civilized Fauna. He has been moving steadily towards the Funny Animal Camp over the years. In The Looney Tunes Show, he is almost completely a Funny Creature, with a large suburban firm, a Prius, and a good income stream through royalties from his inventions. Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production moves him back to being a Civilized Animate being living in a hole in the ground.
• Los Trotamúsicos are a band of domestic animate being musicians. What's more funny than that?
• My Footling Pony:
  • One-off antagonist Zeb (a zebra) from My Little Pony 'n Friends. Rather jarring given that most of the cast are too equines, merely are not anthropomorphized to the extent Zeb is.
  • My Niggling Pony Tales: The characters may expect like My Little Pony ponies, but their behaviors and concerns are homo. You know y'all're dealing with a Slice of Life show about human-similar characters when the kids stand around discussing their problems with their parents as they wash the dinner dishes.

• Most of the characters in Pig Caprine animal Assistant Cricket are either this or a human, with the exception for Banana.
• Popeye:
  • Popeye encountered i of these in "The Hungry Goat". The short overall felt like more of a Tex Avery drawing than a Popeye drawing.
  • Funny animals are featured prominently in "Popeye The Crewman" and "I Eats My Spinach". Fleischer Studios was known to employ these in the Betty Boop cartoons, where the Popeye series branched out of.
• Regular Show:
  • This is both played this straight and averted with the main characters. Mordecai the bluejay might every bit well exist a human being, seeing as he doesn't consume like a bird, wing, or do anything else bird-like. Rigby the raccoon, on the other manus, is shown to dig through trash and run on all fours, but otherwise acts almost as human-like. Lampshaded in this conversation:

    Mordecai: Dude, don't dig in the trash. It's non natural.

    Rigby: Y'all're non natural!

  • Of annotation is that in the Regular Show universe, everybody who can talk is considered human, and nobody actually seems to question it.
• Many of the characters of Rocko'due south Modern Life. A few non-animal (nor human) characters show up from fourth dimension to fourth dimension.
• The Shnookums & Meat Funny Cartoon Show: Schnookums and Meat themselves, plus many of the characters on the Pith Possum segments.
• Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat is an odd case. Due to the era it was released in, it features a cast of African-Americans who are fatigued to heavily resemble chimpanzees.
• The cast of SpongeBob SquarePants consists mostly of anthropomorphized sea creatures.
• The cast of TaleSpin. Baloo started as a Talking Animal living in the jungles of India and wound up an Anthro flying a plane and living in a city.
• Hamton J. Pig from Tiny Toon Adventures, being based on Porky, is the only animal member of the cast who lives in a completely human house, fifty-fifty though it'due south adjacent to the mud piles of other pigs. Otherwise, the cast tend more toward Funny Animals than the original Looney Tunes, as they attend school (albeit for an education on being a drawing character), oftentimes employ urban facilities like stores, and are shown socializing with each other in a not-hostile context.
• Although some of them dip near-ish the Talking Animate being end of the spectrum sometimes, the cast of T.U.F.F. Puppy is substantially this. Although they retain some beast like mannerisms (Dudley, a dog, has a superhuman sense of smell and an unfortunate habit of chewing his own butt, and his partner Kitty loses all cocky-command and star whenever she sees a mouse or a brawl of string

• The main characters of We Bare Bears, They await like bears, they walk on four legs sometimes, and they alive in a cave, just they otherwise deed human. Nearly actual humans in the prove don't see annihilation odd about this. Notable that they are, in fact, recognized equally bears since they befriended Chloe after she studies them for her college project on bears. They've likewise been known to human activity like wild bears under times of stress, such every bit when Grizz decides they need to go more than primal.
• On Wild Animal Babe Explorers, the characters are basically this, given their speech, use of engineering and their general concerns of exploring and learning. They're Wild Animal Infant Explorers because it'southward wild animals that they're exploring, non they themselves that are wild animals.

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