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The smelt and the sprat are all where it's at
And, oh hear that blowfish blow! }}
** The newt and trout are ''especially''
** [[Prequel|''Ariel's Beginning'']] has a manatee named Benjamin serve as Marina del Ray's [[The Dragon|Dragon.]]
* Although not exactly cute in the ordinary sense (think [[Ugly Cute]]), the animals in [[Rango]] are not the typical animals you find in an animated movie about desert animals. Cases include Priscilla the oddly adorable, big-eyed cactus mouse, Beans the [[Love Interest]] and desert iguana, and the burrowing owl mariachi band.
* The different species of owls from [[Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole]]. You have Gylfie the timid yet intelligent tiny Elf Owl, Twilight the street-smart Great Grey Owl, and Digger the fast talking Burrowing Owl. In fact, the movie's plot is kick-started by the barn owls called the 'Pure Ones' (in a not-so very subtle call to Nazi Aryanism) starting a race war against the other owls.
** An echidna and a Tasmanian devil also show up.
* In [[Happy Feet]], one can count several different types of penguins beyond the generic black and white ones seen in typical media. Mumble and Gloria are emperor penguins, the Latino-accented [[Plucky Comic Relief
** The sequel features two krill, one named Bill and one named Will.
* Other than the main heroes (mammoth, sloth, and saber-toothed cat or ''Smilodon''), [[Ice Age]] and its two sequels were filled to the brim with prehistoric animals that went beyond the stock animals that is so nauseatingly typical in any other movie. You had glyptodonts (salesman Sid's sidekick who got eaten by the marine reptiles, Cretaceous the ''Metriorhynchus'' and Maelstrom the ''Globidens''), the sad and farting chalicothere, gray trunked ''Palaeotherium'', the rhino-looking ''Brontops'' brothers who were harassing Sid in the first movie, a long necked and trunked exasperated ''Macrauchenia'', and giant ''Gastornis'' birds. In the third movie, 'Dawn of the Dinosaurs', it went beyond [[Stock Dinosaurs]] to include a family of ''Triceratops''-looking ''Chasmosaurus'', small stegosaurid ''Kentrosaurus'', a giant pterodactyloid ''Quetzalcoatlus'', ravenous wolfish ''Guanlong'', and a white ''Baryonyx'' named Rudy - Buck's eternal enemy and threat to the ''T. rex'' family.
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* The owls in [[Harry Potter]] include some commonly-mentioned species, but also the lesser-known eagle owl and Scops owl. Similarly, lesser-known mythological creatures such as basilisks and Hippogriffs appear.
* ''[[Redwall]]'' is known for focusing on the seldom used ends of the mustelid spectrum, such as stoats.
* ''Rikki-Tikki-Tavi'', the [[Rudyard Kipling]] book about a mongoose. The story also features such seldom-seen Indian fauna as the krait, the muskrat
** A "sea cow"
*** Most likely referring to the [[wikipedia:Steller's Sea Cow|Steller's Sea Cow]]. which was hunted to extinction 27 years after its discovery in 1741.
* A mongoose also appears in the [[Sherlock Holmes]] story, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man."
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* ''[[Ty the Tasmanian Tiger]]''
* ''[[Bubsy]]'' the bobcat.
* MANY [[Pokémon]] are actually based on obscure animal species. We have Pangolins
** It's safe to say that Game Freak has [[Shown Their Work]] concerning a lot of species and other biological life. Even the ones that aren't based directly on specific animals are instead based on old myths
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Knuckles and Tikal the Echidna.]]
* ''[[Mega Man X|Mega Man X6]]'' has [http://megaman.neoseeker.com/w/i/megaman/9/98/Infinity_Mijinion.jpg Infinity Mijinon]. In case you're wondering, he's a [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Daphnia_pulex.png water flea]!
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Lamprey, Pejerey, Yellow-edged Moray
Salmon shark, Sleeper shark, Leatherback, and Eagle ray! }}
** Much like with the previous example from [[The Little Mermaid]], the anaconda, koi, electric eel, alligator, lungfish, and grass carp are ''especially''
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* Lil'Beeper and Dizzy Devil from ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]''.
* Tiko from ''[[Jana of the Jungle]]'' is a [[wikipedia:Water Opossum|yapok]], a little-known aquatic species of opossum. The show mislabels him a coatimundi, which is [[wikipedia:Coati|a completely different animal]].
* ''[[Go Diego Go]]'' features a lot of
* ''[[Its a Big Big World]]'' features a tamandua (a species of anteater) named Bob and a quetzal bird named Birdette.
* The [[Classic Disney Shorts|classic]] [[Goofy]] animated short ''My African Diary'' featured hartebeest, which resemble medium-sized antelope whose horns are shaped like hearts, hence their name.
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