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These animals are a notch higher than the [[Nearly-Normal Animal]], [[Speech-Impaired Animal]], and [[Talking Animal]], but not quite [[Civilized Animal|Civilized Animals]]. They're [[Partially-Civilized Animal]]s! 

Like the [[Nearly-Normal Animal]], [[Speech-Impaired Animal]], and [[Talking Animal]], the [[Partially-Civilized Animal]] is very much an animal when it comes to thought processes, personality, instincts, priorities, and motivations. They are more frequently depicted as just walking on four legs than on [[Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better|walking on two legs]] or [[Running on All Fours|walking both ways]]. Quite a few of them can walk on two legs as well they can on four legs, but they still normally walk on all fours. Like the [[Civilized Animal]], they may wear a few accessories or articles of clothing (often in pantless fashion) and often have some sort of [[Mouse World]]. 

[[Partially-Civilized Animal]]s can make human-like arm and hand gestures and many can grasp objects as if they have opposable thumbs. Some are bipedal even if their species isn't naturally so, but many others are depicted as staying on four legs if they are a four-legged animal in [[Real Life]]. Like [[Nearly-Normal Animal]], [[Speech-Impaired Animal]], and [[Talking Animal]] birds, [[Partially-Civilized Animal]] birds can have [[Feather Fingers]], but their wings have to look completely like wings. 

Unlike the [[Nearly-Normal Animal]], [[Speech-Impaired Animal]], and [[Talking Animal]], [[Partially-Civilized Animal]]s exhibit some form of civilized manner, usually to a lesser degree than the [[Civilized Animal]], and often have some form of [[Mouse World]]. Unlike the [[Civilized Animal]], the majority of the mannerisms are that of the animal and they are more likely to be four-legged than two legged if they are naturally four legged. 

This is between the [[Civilized Animal]] and the [[Nearly-Normal Animal]], [[Speech-Impaired Animal]], and [[Talking Animal]] on the [[Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism]]. 

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== [[Anime]] ==
* Almost all of the animals in ''[[Kimba the White Lion]]''.
* The goats and wolves from ''[[Arashi no Yoru ni]]''.

== [[Film]] ==
* The rats in ''[[Ratatouille]]'' 
* The peguins in ''[[Happy Feet]]'' 
* The dogs in ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'' 
* The cats in ''[[Gay Purr-ee]]''
* The animals in ''[[Cats and Dogs]]'' 
* Scuttle, Sebastian, and a lot of the other marine animals ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' 
* The geese and cats in ''[[The Aristocats]]'' 
* King Louie the orangutan and the monkeys in ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]'' 
* The animals in the two ''[[Ice Age]]'' sequels 
* The owls in the ''[[Legend of the Guardians: the Owls of ga Hoole]]'' 
* Timon and Rafiki are this in the three ''[[The Lion King]]'' movies, but they are [[Civilized Animal|Civilized Animals]] in the TV series ''[[Timon and Pumbaa]]''. 
* The animals in ''[[Rio]]''
* Rattlesnake Jake and the armadillo from ''[[Rango]]''
** And Rango himself, especially since he was actually originally someone's pet...
* The animals from [[Madagascar]] and its spin-offs have the animals using crude tools, wearing simple clothes and occasionally going bipedal. But there is no doubt that they are animals, and they can't speak with humans.
* The goats and wolves in ''[[Arashi no Yoru ni]]''.

== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' is a bit hard to put on the [[Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism]], but most probably this level.

== [[Video Games]] ==
* Red XIII from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' walks on four legs and generally acts like the ...[[Buffy-Speak|pumadogthing]] he is, but at the same time [[Talking Animal|able to talk]], [[Intellectual Animal|extremely intelligent]] [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and wears a hair decoration]]. 
* The Bunny Children from ''[[Epic Mickey]]'' are this, even though [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit]] (their father) and Ortensia [[Interspecies Romance|the]] ''[[Interspecies Romance|cat]]'' (their mother) are full-fledged [[Funny Animal|Funny Animals]]. 

== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The canines in ''[[Wurr (Webcomic)|Wurr]]'' at first seem like [[Talking Animal|Talking Animals]]... then we find out that the dogs are in the Bronze Age. 

== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Dog from ''[[Word World]]'' is a non-talking, four-legged dog, but he owns a house. 
** Most other four-legged residents, including Elephant and Tiger, belong in this trope, too. 
* The Dog Star Patrol from ''[[Krypto the Superdog (animation)|Krypto the Superdog]]''.
* Perry the Platypus from ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''.
* The ponies in ''[[My Little Pony]]'' and ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' are this; the fact that they are ponies often happens to be a plot point.
* Most of the animals in ''[[Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat]]''. 
* Coco the monkey from ''[[Mickey Mouse Clubhouse]]'' walks on two legs and wears a skirt, a strapless top, and a bow on her head, but she is mostly a "normal" monkey otherwise. 
* The dogs and other animals ''[[101 Dalmatians|101 Dalmatians: The Series]]'' 
* The animals in ''[[Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies]]'', especially the titular character. 
* Precious the cat from ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]''.
* [[Scooby Doo]] is normally a [[Speech-Impaired Animal|speech-impaired, but otherwise normal animal]], can fall into this trope sometimes. 
* Most of the dinosaurs and other animals from ''[[Dinosaur Train]]'', [[Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag|zig zag]] between this trope, [[Talking Animal]], [[Civilized Animal]], and [[Funny Animal]].
* The farm animals in ''[[Barnyard]]'' and ''[[Back at the Barnyard]]'' [[Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag|zig zag]] between this trope, [[Civilized Animal]], and [[Funny Animal]].
* Paco the parrot from ''[[Maya and Miguel]]'' is this, unlike the other animals.

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[[Category:Animal Anthropomorphism Tropes]]
[[Category:Partially-Civilized Animal]]