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* [[Fullmetal Alchemist]] has chimeras, which are regular animals alchemically combined. And sometimes they [[Talking Animal]].
** {{spoiler|[[It Got Worse]]: [[Complete Monster|That human in question is the alchemist's daughter!]]}}
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* Chimairamon of ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' is based on the mythical chimera, and it shows. Several other species fall under this on a less extreme scale, with other obvious ones generally the product of a [[Fusion Dance]].
* All the ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' series and spinoffs contain Ryo-Ohki, a cat-rabbit hybrid, often referred to as a "cabbit". ''[[Tenchi Muyo! GXP]]'' also contains a second cabbit, named Fuku. ''[[Alternate Universe|Tenchi Universe]]'' has Ken-Ohki, a male cabbit who ends up as Ryo-Ohki's boyfriend.
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* Some of the insects in the ''Bugs in a Box'' series pop-up books by David A. Carter appear to be either vertebrate animals, plants, or inanimate objects with insect body parts.
* ''The Wingdingdilly'', which is about a dog that was turned into a chimera as a result of a magic spell cast upon him by a witch.
* The [[Dr. Seuss]] book ''Horton Hatches the Egg'' ends with the egg [[Horton Hears a Who!|Horton the Elephant]] was taking care of [[Whale Egg|hatching into a tiny elephant with wings]].
* Although the main character of [[The Chronicles of Professor Jack Baling]] initially assumes the insect/shrimp creature at the end of the second episode is the combination of several different animals, it’s actually just a modified mantis shrimp [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_shrimp\]. Although, the name makes it clear that they do resemble a combination of those two animals.
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* Many works of fantasy using these exact same mythological creatures.
** They also saw extensive use in heraldry, along with many other [[Mix-and-Match Critters]] that lacked a basis in classic myth.
* The Peluda was a dragon from France that had the head, neck, and tail of a snake, the body of a green porcupine, and the feet of a turtle. Much nastier than it sounds - it could breathe acid and fire, its quills were toxic and could be flicked at prey, had a special taste for [[
* The Egyptian gods are often depicted as humans with animal heads.
** Parodied in [[Discworld]], "Gods are human-shaped. Even Offler the crocodile god is only crocodile ''headed''. Ask humans to imagine an animal god and they'll come up with someone in a really bad mask."
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