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{{quote|''"Heaven take it away! Hippopotami should not have human hands and carry torches... men should not have the heads of crocodiles..."''|'''[[HP Lovecraft]]''' and '''Harry Houdini''''s ''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 "[
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.
* They may feature animal-like claws or pads on their hands, or may stand on [
* Their body frame can be measured by human proportions, e.g: six to eight "heads" tall, legs comprising half their body height, etc.
* They may possess [[Non-Mammal Mammaries|humanlike breasts]], which [[Funny Animal|Funny Animals]] typically lack.
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There are two variants of PZP beside the standard variant, "Borderline Petting Zoo People", and "Borderline [[Little Bit Beastly]]".
* Borderline PZP have a body that does not look simply like an animal-accented human body, nor does it keep the basic shape of the animal entirely like a [[Funny Animal]]. They look partly humanoid and partly like their species, often they have either humanoid legs and non-humanoid torso, humanoid torso and non-humaniod legs, or look semi-humanoid all over. Many [[Top
* Borderline LBB have a animal-accented human face and body frame with the animal's ears, nose, tail (where applicable), markings, and sometimes fur, feathers, or scales. They have a mostly or nearly human-shaped head and little or no semblance of their species' muzzle. If they are a bird, they have the beak or bill respective to their species that is small regardless of their species on an otherwise human-shaped head. These are not to be confused with a [[Beast Man]], which although he/she looks like this variant, he/she is a human with several animalistic physical and even behavorial traits.
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A midpoint between the [[Funny Animal]] and [[Little Bit Beastly]] on the [[Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism]]. Supertrope of [[Intelligent Gerbil]]. See also [[Humanoid Female Animal]], where different ''genders'' of the same species possess differing levels of anthropomorphism. See also the subtrope [[Barefoot Cartoon Animal]], for when characters with this design are overwhelmingly drawn barefoot, despite being normally clothed otherwise.
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* Chicken George from ''[[Fourteen]]'' is a chicken variety of this.
* They are a common sight in the ''[[Dragon Ball (Manga)|Dragon Ball]]'' series, even moreso in the earlier arcs. Major characters that fit this trope included Puar, [[Pig Man|Oolong]], and Korin. Other examples of this trope are Captain Yellow (a tiger), a high-ranking officer of the Red Ribbon Army and King Furry (a dog), the King of Earth.
* At least ''three'' of ''[[Doraemon (Anime)|Doraemon]]'''s [[Non
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* The rats in ''[[Flushed Away]]''.
* Beans and Angelique the vixen in ''[[Rango]]'' are PZP.
* A lot of female penguins in ''[[The Pebble and The Penguin]]'', including Marina, and the [[Top
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* In the second cartoon series, but not in the two live-action movies, [[Alvin and The Chipmunks (Animation)|Alvin and The Chipmunks]] are either Borderline Petting Zoo People or straight-up Petting Zoo People and the Chipettes are Borderline [[Little Bit Beastly]].
* Lieutenant M'Ress in ''[[Star Trek the Animated Series]]''.
* [[Terry Toons]]' ''[[Mighty Mouse]]'' is an example of [[Top
* In ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|Thundercats 2011]]'' the main cast of Thundercats are [[Beast Folk]] [[Catfolk|Cats]], but other Animals, like [[Dogfaces|Dogs]] [[Lizard Folk|Lizards]] and [[Fishmen]] are designed as this type.
* A painting of King Julien that Maurice was painting in one episode of ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' depicts him with this appearance.
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