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If the cast is mostly human, expect the talking animals and anthros to be an [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]. If the cast of a work is mostly composed of animals, a human may be thrown in as [[Token Human|the furry equivalent of a]] [[Token Minority]]. And if the [[Funny Animal|Funny Animals]] in question are very small and typically go unnoticed by humans, it's a [[Mouse World]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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== Videogames ==
* ''[[Animal Crossing]].'' You and your fellow [[Player Character|Player Characters]] are the only humans in a village full of [[Half -Dressed Cartoon Animal|Half Dressed Cartoon Animals]]. To be fair, the other species you meet seem to come in short supply too, so you're all kind of [[Token Minority|Token Minorities]].
** [[Fridge Logic]] sets in when you realize that there are house items that are animals. ''Normal'' animals. Your robin neighbors don't seem alarmed when they come to your house see your birdcage. Heck, ''they'' can have their ''own'' birdcage!
*** You can ''give'' them a bird cage! And they'll ''thank you''!
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* Quite a few [[Hanna-Barbera]] cartoons had this. While a lot of HB 'toons featured run-of-the-mill [[Talking Animal|Talking Animals]], there were also shows such as ''[[Top Cat]]'', ''[[Hong Kong Phooey]]'' and more, I'm sure.
** In ''[[Hong Kong Phooey]]'', Penry is the only anthropomorphic animal in the series... which is probably supposed to make even more ridiculous the fact that nobody thinks a lowly police janitor could be Hong Kong Phooey.
* ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]].'' Songwriter finds (abducts?) some (freakishly large) talking chipmunks in the forest, puts them in co-ordinated clothing and makes them sing pop songs. And they befriend three giant female talking chipmunks owned/parented by some wealthy dowager. Nothing weird about that. [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?|Nothing at all]].
** Interestingly, there is an episode where Alvin finds another chipmunk in the park, also his size and intelligent. It seems as though in the universe of the show, chipmunks just look like that...
** An Easter special revealed that various other anthropomorphic rodents exist in the Chipmunks universe, including rabbits, badgers, and porcupines.
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* Part of the premise of ''[[My Gym Partners a Monkey]]'', where the human Adam Lyon is enrolled into a school of nothing but Funny Animals.
* ''[[Duckman]]'' has ducks and pigs and chickens and teddy bears and humans and [[Biological Mashup|weird hybrids]] and plenty of other animals.
* ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' is composed mainly of humans, yet the main character often has run-ins with [[Talking Animal|TalkingAnimals]]. One episode has him going on a blind date with an antelope; as if that wasn't enough, at dinner his food (a crab) [[Carnivore Confusion|turns out to be his date's ex!]] [[Check, Please!]]. In another episode, he went on a date with a girl who turned out to be a werewolf.
** Oddly enough in seasons 2 and 3, the animals are more realistic and they do not talk, otherwise why would Johnny wish to a Genie for a talking monkey when talking monkeys already existed in season 1? But when the show made to season 4, the animals started talking again. No explaination is given for this.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' takes the idea and goes into some weird places. Brian, the Griffin's dog, talks and walks same as the human cast. In the first few episodes he was treated as a dog who just happened to talk, but in later seasons he starts dating humans (who don't even seem to be that much concerned that he is a dog), almost has an affair with Lois, and even has an illegitimate ''human'' child.
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** Not to mention the episode where he was arrested for drinking at a humans-only water fountain.
** He also has a gay cousin named Jasper, who has a human boyfriend. Yet his mother was an ordinary, non-sapient dog, and apparently so were his brothers and sisters.
** In the [[Spin -Off]] ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'', one of Cleveland's neighbors is a bear who works for the cable company.
{{quote| '''Cleveland''': Aaah, a bear!<br />
'''Tim the Bear''': Aaah, a black man! Aaah! You see? It don't feel so good, does it? Is very reductive. }}
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* ''[[Top Cat]]''
* The 1950s ''[[Felix the Cat]]'' TV series.
* In ''[[Flip the Frog]]'', practically every human, [[Funny Animal]], [[Nearly -Normal Animal]], [[Intellectual Animal]], and even [[Animate Inanimate Object]] interacts with each other on regular basis.
* The title character of ''[[Curious George]]'', but not so much the other animal characters.
* ''[[Adventures From the Book of Virtues]]''
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