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[[File:snoopy_typewriter.gif|link=Peanuts (Comic Strip)|frame|It's not that impressive. He has to hunt-and-peck.]]

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* The Beaver from [[Seth Green]]'s ''Freshmen''. Essentially a take on the X-men's Beast. Except as a tiny fuzzy animal who has an obsession with building dams.

* [[DC Comics|Detective Chimp]]. Gorilla Grodd, ''especially'' in ''[[Justice League]].'' In the [[Silver Age]], [[Supergirl]]'s horse Comet was actually a [[Greek Mythology|centaur]] who had fallen victim to a [[Baleful Polymorph]]. And [[Silver Age]] [[Heroic Dog|Krypto]] had full human intelligence for no real reason except that it was more fun that way (and hey, he's an ''alien'' dog, so why not?).

** Also [[Memetic Badass|Rex the Wonder Dog]], who once [[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun|nuked a T. rex]], was a fully qualified intellectual ''long'' before the Fountain of Youth gave him the ability to talk. Hell, by that point he had already had a successful career as a newspaper photographer.

** Also [[Memetic Badass|Rex the Wonder Dog]], who once [[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?|nuked a T. rex]], was a fully qualified intellectual ''long'' before the Fountain of Youth gave him the ability to talk. Hell, by that point he had already had a successful career as a newspaper photographer.

* Barnabas, Destruction (later Delirium)'s dog in ''[[The Sandman]]''.

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** Quoth the Raven, one of {{smallcaps| [[Grim Reaper|Death's]]}} companions.

** And the [[Discworld (Literature)/The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents|Amazing Maurice and his rodent friends]].

*** Who follow in the tradition of ''[[Mrs. Frisby and The Rats of NIMH (Literature)|Mrs. Frisby and The Rats of NIMH]]'', complete with a [[Shout Out]] to the latter rodents' aspiration to found their own civilization in Thorn Valley.

*** Who follow in the tradition of ''[[Mrs. Frisby and The Rats of NIMH (Literature)|Mrs. Frisby and The Rats of NIMH]]'', complete with a [[Shout-Out]] to the latter rodents' aspiration to found their own civilization in Thorn Valley.

** Averted in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Sourcery|Sourcery]]'', where what Rincewind took to be a highly cultured talking snake turned out to be an extremely thin man sitting behind the snake.

* ''[[Firekeeper]]'' has these in truckloads, considering that basically every wild animal comes in a smart variety.

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