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{{quote|''Oh, [[Super Mario World (video game)|Larry]] got himself an entourage, you know? I guess he's thinking to himself like he's a superstar now that he is a turtle with a white mohawk somehow. Turtles are not meant to be able to grow hair, I'll have you know. I know! It is something I had to learn myself the hard way back in kintergarden, when I mistook a turtle for a 100 gigawatt bolt of cloth! Then I was wondering why it wouldn't swim and I was rather the sad little critter.''
|[[Raocow]], being only [[Shaggy Frog Story|semi-relevant]] to this trope.}}
▲{{quote|''Oh, [[Super Mario World (video game)|Larry]] got himself an entourage, you know? I guess he's thinking to himself like he's a superstar now that he is a turtle with a white mohawk somehow. Turtles are not meant to be able to grow hair, I'll have you know. I know! It is something I had to learn myself the hard way back in kintergarden, when I mistook a turtle for a 100 gigawatt bolt of cloth! Then I was wondering why it wouldn't swim and I was rather the sad little critter.''|[[Raocow]], being only [[Shaggy Frog Story|semi-relevant]] to this trope.}}
Some non-mammalian cartoon characters are drawn with what looks to be real hair on their heads, despite the fact that real hair is exclusive to mammals and one of our defining traits. Bird characters tend to get away with this the most, since their "hair" can be [[Handwaved]] as feathers that happen to look like [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]], namely long "hair" on female characters.
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Lesser versions of this trope include non-mammals with eyelashes (another signifier that the wearer is female) or eyebrows to make human-like facial expressions. This trope is tricky to extend to aliens whose species [[Bizarre Alien Biology|probably can't be defined on our terms]].
Compare [[Non-Mammal Mammaries]], when something ''else'' is used to humanize female non-mammal characters and often overlaps with this Trope.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* [[Bishonen Line|Wargreymon]] from [[Digimon Adventure]] has short hair under his helmet.
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== Comic Books ==
* Some of the female ducks in the [[Disney Duck Comic Universe]] have "hair" on their heads in addition to feathers, while most of the male ducks just have white "feathers" that behave like hair, as in the case of Scrooge's whiskers. Gyro Gearloose does have "hair", though, and Gladstone Gander's curls seem to vary between being feathers and actually being colored blond, [[Depending on the Artist]].
:Some male examples exist too. [[wikipedia:File:Ludwig von Drake.png|Ludwig von Drake]] has a fringe of hair, giving the impression that he's bald (but he has feathers on the top of his head!). [[wikipedia:File:Flintheart Glomgold - DuckTales.jpg|Flinthart Glomgold]] has a very full beard.<ref>Oddly, Glomgold only has a hairy beard in the animated series ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]''; in [http://coa.inducks.org/character.php?c=FLG&view=2 the comics], it's the same color as his feathers.</ref> In ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', Launchpad McQuack has a red forelock peeking out from his aviator's cap; whether the rest of his head is drawn with hair or feathers varies from episode to episode.▼
== Fan Works ==
▲Some male examples exist too. [[wikipedia:File:Ludwig von Drake.png|Ludwig von Drake]] has a fringe of hair, giving the impression that he's bald (but he has feathers on the top of his head!). [[wikipedia:File:Flintheart Glomgold - DuckTales.jpg|Flinthart Glomgold]] has a very full beard.<ref>Oddly, Glomgold only has a hairy beard in the animated series ''[[DuckTales]]''; in [http://coa.inducks.org/character.php?c=FLG&view=2 the comics], it's the same color as his feathers.</ref> In ''[[DuckTales]]'', Launchpad McQuack has a red forelock peeking out from his aviator's cap; whether the rest of his head is drawn with hair or feathers varies from episode to episode.
* In the ''[[This Time Round]]'' [[Funny Animal]] subuniverse "This Toon Round", [[Author Avatar]] Daibhid Chelonidae is a tortoise with what his creator calls "an inexplicable dark-brown ponytail".
== Film ==
* ''[[Rango]]'': Beans the desert lizard has curly locks of auburn hair. The gunslinger Rattlesnake Jake has a black mark under his lips that resembles a mustache.
== Folklore ==
* In Armenian folklore dragons (called vishaps) tended to have lion-like manes. One story involves a vishap tricking a boy into picking out the lice from its hair so he could eat the boy.
== Literature ==
* The Falleen
** The Falleen reptilian humanoid species that have full heads of hair. ''The Essential Guide to Alien Species'' [[Lampshade Hanging|notes that this is unusual]], however.
** Whether Hutts are better classified as reptiles or gastropods is unclear [[Hybrid Monster|(they share biological traits of those and other types of animals)]] but they clearly aren't mammals. Nonetheless, Jabba's father Zorba the Hutt was unusual among his kind, as he had long, white, dreadlocked hair on his head and a great, braided beard. Because this was such a rarity in Hutts, Zorba's hair marked him as a kind of mutation among his people, and they [[All of the Other Reindeer|rarely hid their distaste of it.]]
* Mermaids, depending on how you classify them▼
* Any mammalian/bird hybrid such as hippogriffs or griffin http://witchwarrior101.blogspot.com/2010/03/gryphon-vs-hippogryph.html▼
* Medusa is an inversion of this: http://www.rickveitch.com/2008/08/01/snakes-on-a-mane/▼
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
▲* Mermaids, depending on how you classify them.
▲* Any mammalian/bird hybrid such as hippogriffs or griffin http://witchwarrior101.blogspot.com/2010/03/gryphon-vs-hippogryph.html{{Dead link}}
▲* Medusa is an inversion of this: https://web.archive.org/web/20120124005609/http://www.rickveitch.com/2008/08/01/snakes-on-a-mane/
== Tabletop Games ==
* Many ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' monsters are portrayed as (usually female and beautiful) non-mammals with hair. Naga, mariliths, lillendi, harpies ... some of them are magical or demonic beings, but it's disturbingly consistent.
* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'': The [[Our Orcs Are Different|Greenskins of]] are naturally hairless, because they're essentially sentient and extremely violent humanoid fungi. Most Greenskin hair is limited to topknots which are explained as being a specialized breed of squig (small, mindless and very hungry/aggressive beasties) that clamps onto the skin with its teeth and is used as a "clip on" hairpiece.
== Video Games ==
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** Though with the former the mustache may actually be a pair of feelers/pincers/antennae while the latter's mustache might be made of, well, jelly.
* Q-Bee from the ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' series has what ''appears'' to be hair, although it (along with her cute mammalian face and [[Non-Mammal Mammaries|other attributes]]) is a lure designed to trap foolish mammalian males.
* All the Inklings - both genders - in ''[[Splatoon]]'', seeing as they are an evolved strain of cephalopods.
* ''Lots'' of monsters in ''[[Undertale]]'', such as Undyne (fish-woman) and Bratty (alligator-girl).
== Web Comics ==
* In the NSFW ''[[Dreamwalk Journal]]'', most of the anthropomorphic insects and arachnids, both male and female, have hairlike stuff on their heads. As well as the other humanoid characteristics you'd expect from an erotic comic.
* ''[[Nip and Tuck]]'': Subverted; lizard Hortense wears wigs.
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* The trolls from ''[[Homestuck]]''. [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|They look like humans with horns and gray skin]], but it's implied by their bizarre life cycle and a few references to their physiology that they're closer to insects. This doesn't prevent them from having hair--[[Rapunzel Hair|long, flowing locks of it]], even, in some cases.
== Web Original ==
* ''[[SCP Foundation]]'':
** [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682 The notorious SCP-682] ("Hard to Kill Reptile") is often depicted as a vaugely lizard-like being with a thick coat of tangled grey hair. Of course, whether it can truly be called a reptile (or assigned ''any'' biological nomenclature) is highly debatable - in [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-pale-horse one story] a failed attempt to "terminate" the being also gave it ''feathers''.
== Western Animation ==
* Madge the map turtle from the [[PBS]] Kids show ''[[It's a Big Big World]]'' has white "hair".
* Daisy Duck from the ''[[Classic Disney Shorts]]''
* ''[[Saturday Supercade]]''
* All the
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'': Shirley McLoon is another bird example.
* ''[[Rock-a-Doodle]]'': Chanticleer and Goldie.
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* ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]'': [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|Sir Hiss]] appears to have three strands of hair sticking out from underneath his hat.
* ''[[Fish Hooks]]'': Of the three characters, Milo the betta fish is the only one who has a dorsal fin on his head. Bea goldfish has long red hair while Oscar the catfish has a full afro. In fact a lot of the sea characters have hair, including an octopus and a pony-tailed clam.
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'':
** Melissa Duck,
** Hata Mari, the [[Femme Fatale]] pigeon from the [[Wartime Cartoon]] "Plane Daffy".
** In the short ''Tortoise Wins by a Hare
* Both Filbert Turtle and Bev Bighead from ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]''.
* Lola (a bird) from ''[[CatDog]]''.
* Some of the animals
* Roz from ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' is a large garden snail-like monster with a tuft of white hair on her head.
** Also, some of the monsters, whether resembling either toads, slugs, or octopi, will inevitably have some form of hair on their heads.
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* Crusty from ''[[Dink the Little Dinosaur]]''.
* Nessie from the Disney theatrical short "The Ballad of Nessie."
* [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] usually doesn't have hair, but in some episodes, he gets a five-o-clock shadow when [[Beard of Sorrow| he's stressed, depressed, or upset.]] Has also happened with Squidward and Mr. Krabs.
* In ''[[Amphibia (TV series)|Amphibia]]'', most of [[Funny Animal|the amphibian natives]] of the realm have hair, some of the males also having beards.
== Real Life ==
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