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A similar term is "[http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Gijinka gijinka]", similarly anthropomorphized creatures, animals or [[Mon]]s who are regarded as ''actual'' creatures later [[Humanity Ensues|transformed into humans]], retaining only their most prominent features (again, mostly their original ears and tail) and/or special abilities (Mons especially).
 
This can overlap with [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]], depending on the setting; one of the most common (some would argue [[ClicheCliché|overused]]) ways to invent a fictional race or alien species is to take a non-hominid animal and [[Intelligent Gerbil|anthropomorphize it]] to an extreme, resulting in a virtually human character with a few animal traits, or alternatively, an [[Petting Zoo People|animal head on a human frame]], complete with other human features like a pair of [[Non-Mammal Mammaries]]. This is often [[Hand Wave]]d as an [[You Fail Biology Forever|"Alternate Evolutionary Path"]].
 
Sometimes referred to as the "ten percent" variety of anthropomorphism, usually to differentiate fans of this type of character from [[Furry Fandom]]. See also [[Cute Monster Girl]] or [[Beast Man]]. Compare [[Half-Human Hybrid]] for an [[Interspecies Romance|actual hybrid]] between a human and another species.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy]]'' included Ungors: mostly human except for hairy legs, somewhat distorted faces, and small horns. Of course there are larger and less human version such as gors and minotaurs
* ''Nezumi-bito'', rat-people, show up in various Japanese-themed fantasy settings, including ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'''s "Oriental Adventures" campaign setting, ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Kamigawa]]'', and ''[[Legend of the Five Rings]]''. They're usually nasty scavengers, except in the latter, where they're the first line of defense against the [[Big Bad]] (but still scavengers).
* The Skaven from ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]''.
* ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' has a plethora of reptilian humanoids:
** [[Lizard Folk]] are the most common. They live in swamps and sometimes eat people. They're not always evil, though, just ill-tempered and territorial.
** The subterranean Troglodytes, on the other hand, are vicious creatures with nothing but animosity towards humans. They also have a musky stench like a skunk. The art in some editions of the Monstrous Manual made them look [[Killer Rabbit|kinda cute...]]
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** Suwako Moriya, Goddess and frog-girl can be considered a river creature, as well. Her hat has her frog-like eyes upon it. Because her animalistic feature is presumably removable, some fans have made a joke that her hat really is a separate, brain-eating entity with a will of its own. Whether she actually has any inherent frog traits or simply assumed them as part of the identity she presents to worshippers (like the snake motif her fellow goddess Kanako Yasaka adopted after beating Suwako in a fight) is unclear.
** Kyouko Kasodani from ''[[Touhou|Ten Desires]]'' is a ''[http://www.safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=602339 Yamabiko]'', some kind of Youkai who is the cause and reason of echos. What kind of animal it's supposed to be is [[Cartoon Creature|another matter]].
* ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' has them in ''every'' game of the franchise.
** The entire Wydian/Windian tribe from the ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' series, which sport wings in the first, second, and fourth games (they're strangely absent in the third game though). It is said they have lost them, due to one of their ancestors breeding with a member of the dragon clan. Even though it clearly would take [[You Fail Biology Forever|a hell of a lot more]] than just ''one'' of them breeding with a non-Windian for that to happen.
** In ''Breath Of Fire IV'', there's a bit of Lineage Decay as well (it's implied the Wyndians could once do extended powered flight). Then again, in ''IV'' the Wyndians (and every other race on the planet) were specifically adopted by Endless and mutated based on the aspect of the god in question.
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* Almost the entire cast of ''[[Legend of Mana]]'' falls into this in some way or other. There are anthropomorphic snakes, birds, cats, monkeys, and ''teapots''.
* Makoto of ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'' is a squirrel girl. [[Squirrel Girl|No, not that one.]] Though she's [[Spanner in the Works|almost just as big a thorn in the side of evil]] as that one.
** A brief summary of all the [[Petting Zoo People]] in ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'' is worth adding here, as well. They run the gamut from [[Funny Animal]]s to humans with the ears-and-tail conceits; in order from most to least beast-like, they are: [[Funny Animal|Jubei]], the [[Hidden Depths|world's strongest warrior]]; [[Catgirl|the Kaka clan]], including [[Cloudcuckoolander|Taokaka]]; [[Half-Human Hybrid]] and [[Mad Scientist]] Kokonoe; and the aforementioned [[Genki Girl]] Makoto. In the stage backgrounds one can also see one Falcon Man, a Canine Boy, and a Goat Person, and there are many other types out there, [[Its All There in the Manual|or so we're told]], and they are, for the most part, the target of [[Fantastic Racism]].
* The [[Star Ocean]] games are filled with animalistic humanoids of the "alternate evolutionary path" school. These tend to vary from [[Petting Zoo People]] (a few background NPCs, including frog and fish people) right up through this trope (menodixes like [[Star Ocean 3|Roger S. Huxley]] are raccoon-people, and [[Winged Humanoid|featherfolk]] and [[Catgirl|felinefolk]] have their own tropes). These will generally all be expounded upon at length by the game's [[Encyclopedia Exposita|dictionary]].
* The draenei in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' have a few vaguely goat/antelope-like traits; their feet are cloven hooves, and the females (and ''[[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism|some]]'' of the males) have horns. However, although they have tails, those look (if anything) vaguely reptilian; and they also have a few more outright alien traits such as blue skin, catfish-whisker-like facial tendrils, and—on the males, anyway—Klingon foreheads.
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* Marena from ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'' has a fox ears & tail. This isn't due to her being of a different race from humans, however, but is what is referred to in the world of [[Exalted]] as a Tell, due to her being a Lunar Exalted with an fox Spirit Form.
* Kitsunefoxy in [[Gai-Gin]]. [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|Nobody seems to notice.]]
* Rieko in [[Yosh!]], who is also - through [[Dead Little Sister|a series]] [[Back Fromfrom the Dead|of events]] - made into a [[Robot Girl]].
* [[Strays]] Both main characters are werewolves that can also turn into full wolves.
* [[Playful Hacker|WiredWolf]] of ''[[Enjuhneer]]'' was established as a [[Our Werewolves Are Different|variant werewolf]] early on, but she permanently acquired a wolf's ears and tail after her [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]].
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* The crew of the Primate Avengers in ''[[Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys|Captain Simian and The Space Monkeys]]'', as well as Rhesus-2 in part.
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' - Beast Boy deserves a mention here, between his [[Unusual Ears]] and [[Cute Little Fangs]]—and the fact that he is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. Though there isn't anything that ties him to any one definite animal, except for the fact that he gained his powers from being bitten by a green monkey.
** It should be noted he's a human though. In [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|the comics]] he gained his powers from an accident, when his father tried to save his life using a machine not tested on humans. In the comics he initially lacked any abnormal features besides being green, but [[Canon Immigrant|he eventually was given animal-like features]] after the cartoon became popular.
* Even though he is a puppet in the shape of a normal boy thoughout most of the movie, Disney's [[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]] looks like a puppet Little Bit Beastly when he [[Baleful Polymorph|gains donkey ears and a donkey tail]] while visiting Pleasure Island. He loses the donkey ears and donkey tail when he turns into a real boy.
 
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