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== Film ==

* The owls in ''[[Legend of the Guardians: ~~the~~ Owls of ga Hoole]]'' use their feet rather than their wings to manipulate objects.

* The owls in ''[[Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole]]'' use their feet rather than their wings to manipulate objects.

* ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'' has mixed uses of this trope. Ducks and geese are able to use their feathers like fingers, but Crane (the, well, crane) has realistic wings and uses his feet and beak to move objects.

* The pigeons in ''[[Bolt]]'' surprisingly avert this. Even when gesturing, their wings still move like real wings, and they tend to investigate or manipulate objects with their beaks.

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== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In ''The legend of Anne Bunny'' equine characters wear special [http://www.hirezfox.com/km/loab/loab650/d/20041101.html cybergloves] over their forehooves.

* ''[[Girl Genius]]'': Krosp, The King of Cats, has normal cat-like paws with short dewclaws, meaning he can't manipulate that many things that need opposable thumbs or hold that many things without using both paws well, like a normal cat.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In ''Peep and the Big Wide World'', most of the major characters don't even have visible forelimbs. So they hold things in their beaks (like actual birds). Chirp does have visible wings but she uses them mostly to gesticulate.

* ''[[I Am Not an Animal]]'' is a British animation about a bunch of superintelligent animals who are released from a research facility. The nominally smartest of them, a horse, is mortified that he can't put on his pants by himself now he's outside the research facility. He uses magnets on his hooves to hold knives and forks, and the sparrow somehow attaches plastic fingers on sticks to his wings to allow him to type and play keyboard.

* Probably the strangest example would be ''[[My Little Pony Tales]]''. The Ponies are not normally anthropomorphic or human-like in the least; aside from the fact that they talk, they are quadrupedal equines with hooves. And yet, in this series, they live in a human-like 1980s suburbia, and can carry and use objects that have obviously been designed for humans -- sometimes with their teeth (which wouldn't be ''so'' weird except for the fact that there don't seem to be any humans around), but most frequently just by just using their front hooves as if they were hands, and the objects either somehow sticking to them (like pencils or mugs) or just working without any apparent explanation (like guitars or keyboards), without even any attempt at a [[Hand Wave]]. (The original [[My Little Pony]] cartoons kept a couple of humans around for such things, so [[Feather Fingers|Hoof Fingers]] weren't necessary) [[Bellisario's Maxim|Just breathe, just breathe...]]

* In the current show ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Friendship is Magic]]'', ponies need to use their mouths (or, for unicorns, their magic powers) for most things we use our hands for. Sometimes, however, the ponies give up and just manipulate or even inexplicably grasp things with their hooves. Pegasuses have also sometimes used their wings in a way that is closer to the trope name than it is to what wings could actually do. The general rule seems to be that the unexplained hoof-grasping is avoided unless it becomes too inconvenient to do so, with a preference for more creative solutions that at least work physically if not physiologically, like a [[Prehensile Tail]].

* Averted -- for the most part -- with the fish in ''[[Finding Nemo]]''. Not so much with Nigel the pelican. His primary feathers are fully rendered in extreme detail, so they are practically a [[Lampshade Hanging]] on how odd this looks.

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* Used in one of [[Robot Chicken]]'s shorts parodying the Muppet Show and the Muppet Babies. When the murderer (who happens to be Skooter dressed up as his homicidal sister, Skeeter, to seek bloody vengeance on the other muppets after they drowned her when they were baby muppets and kept it a secret throughout their lives) corners and is ready to kill the remaining muppets Kermit and Miss Piggy, Carmilla the chicken (Gonzo's love interest before he was killed off first) threatens him with a drawn bow and arrow, prompting the incredulous Skooter to call out on this trope: " You can't shoot me! Chickens don't even have fingers!" (is shot dead).

* Most of the cast of ''[[Birdz]]'' has mostly arm-like wings which they use just like normal arms despite also being capable of flight. Strangely, one episode has them bowling with their feet.

* [[Donald Duck]] and Daisy Duck not only have awfully handlike wing feathers, they develop ''Tail'' [[Feather Fingers]] from time to time in the [[Classic Disney Shorts]].

* Averted with Roadrunner from ''[[Looney Tunes]]''. He carries things with his feet instead of his wings.

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* Otis and the other cows from ''[[Barnyard]]'' and ''[[Back at the Barnyard]]'' have real looking front hooves when masquerading as ordinary cows in front of the farmer, but change into prehensile black mitts with thumbs when bipedal.

* Rita from ''[[Animaniacs]]'' has hands with thumbs when she's on two legs or gesturing, but these turn to normal front paws without thumbs when she's on four legs.

** Same thing occurs with the other cats from ''[[Animaniacs]]'' and ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]''

** But averted with the Warner Sibs in the few instances that they're standing on four legs. They not only retain their thumbs when they're on four legs, their hands still look like hands on the floor.

* Pooh and Tigger from ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'' have [[Powerpuff Girl Hands]] with thumbs that appear when they grasp something or gesture.