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[[File:StarFox FoxMcCloud 1909.jpg|link=Star Fox Adventures|frame|[[Star Fox (series)|The godfather of]] [[Furry Fandom|furries everywhere]].]]
{{quote|''"Heaven take it away! Hippopotami should not have human hands and carry torches... men should not have the heads of crocodiles..."''|'''[[H.P. Lovecraft]]''' and '''[[Harry Houdini]]'''{{'}}s ''[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/up.aspx Under the Pyramids]''.}}
A Petting Zoo Person is a type of character who is so anthropomorphized that they resemble an animal's head and tail placed on an otherwise human body frame. This is a higher degree of [[Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism|anthropomorphism]] than the [[Funny Animal]] (who retain the [http://cartooncave.blogspot.com/2009/01/anthropomorphism.html general shape and proportions of the animal]), but a step below those that are a [[Little Bit Beastly]] (whose ''only'' animal features are their [[Unusual Ears|ears]] and tail, possibly claws); in Japan, this level of anthropomorphism is referred to as "[[wikipedia:Kemono|kemono]]" (which is shortened term of ''kemono-obito'' or beast-man, and is also what [[Furry Fandom|Japanese furries]] call themselves).
'''Petting Zoo People''' typically feature the following:
* They possess the animal's full head and face, and (where applicable) the animal's tail.
* Where [[Little Bit Beastly]] folks have human skin, Petting Zoo People possess fur-, feather-, or scale-covered bodies. Sometimes they have a mix of skin accented with heavy concentrations of fur (et al), a built in [[Pretty in Mink]] as it were.
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* Female animal characters in the ''[[Sly Cooper]]'' games.
** Sly Cooper, a male animal character, is a Borderline PZP.
* The later ''[[Wizardry]]'' games has as PC races the Rawulf (canines, with low Intelligence, but high vitality and piety, making them excellent priests and lords, or valkyries for the females), Felpurr (felines, with low Piety, but high Speed and Dexterity), Mook (<s>Wookies</s> hairy Bigfoot-like people - low Piety, but high Strength, Vitality and Intelligence) and Lizardmen (all mental characteristics are low, but great Vitality and Strength). NPC races include the space-traveling rivals Umpani (warlike rhino-folk) and T'Rang (sneaky spider-folk, but still upright humanoids... even with four hands), natives of Guardia include the Rattkin (rat-folk) and Gorn (ape-like folk with fangs, sort of honourable version of Orcs) and Dominus has the Trynnies (nice, but thieving chipmunk-folk living in a [[Tree-Top Town]])... and the Rattkin who followed there {{
* The Rabbits and Pigs from ''[[SWINE]]''.
* The Argonians from ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' CRPGs are anthropomorphic lizards, yet the females have [[Non-Mammal Mammaries|mammaries]] and the males have bulging loincloths. ''Morrowind'' dropped this, however, with the females in that game having no mammaries and the males having no visible... equipment. ''Oblivion'' picked it back up though, to the point where the two beast races have human-like bodies, but are covered in fur/scales and have a tail.
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