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You've just encountered the Alien Animal. These [[Aliens and Monsters|aliens]] don't have [[Little Green Men|green skin]] or [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|rubber foreheads]], they just look exactly like a specific type of animal. Maybe they make up the entire population of that animal on Earth or only part of them. Sometimes they're leaving Earth because they have knowledge about the impending [[The End of the World as We Know It|end of the world]] and sometimes they just like [[Aliens Steal Cable|watching television]]. Just [[MST3K Mantra|relax]] and go with it.
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== Comic Books ==* In one [[Fantastic Four]] story Reed Richards hypnotized some alien shapeshifters called the Skrulls into thinking they were ordinary Earth cows. Years later those alien cows got mixed in with some Earth cow and some were slaughtered for beef. The alien flesh though gave some people a virus that [[Cursed with Awesome|shapeshift their bodies into deadly weapons and detect hidden skrulls]] and it would also eventually kill them. The best part? [[Paranoia Fuel|There is no way of telling which cow is a Skrull until you eat it.]]▼
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== Folk Lore ==
* There is an old British tale (there are different Scottish and English versions, probably some Irish too) about a man that comes across a funeral performed by cats on his way to home. The deceased is a cat in a crown holding a scepter (or the coffin is closed and the crown and scepter are painted over the coffin). When arriving home he tells the strange story to his wife, moment in which the house cat suddenly exclaims "The Old Tom/Tim/Pete/whatever is dead? Then I'm the King of the Cats!" and promptly runs out of the house.
* The chupacabra. a hairless
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** According to novels, it would seem that dolphins are the only native sapient life on Earth.
* Also in ''[[Animorphs]]'', domesticated dogs are the product of Pemalites bonding their souls with wolves before they became extinct. So that counts. Sort of.
** Not an animal example, but one of the
* The cats in the book ''Star Ka'at'' and its sequels. Earth cats were colonists from a planet of sentient cats; when Earth got in danger, the advanced alien cats went to retrieve the Earth cats.
* A [[Spider Robinson]] story in the ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon|Callahan]]'' series reveals that we find cockroaches distasteful because they are the degenerate descendants of an evil alien race of overlords.
* In one ''[[Mandrake the Magician]]'' story, Narda has a dream ([[Or Was It a Dream?]]?) about finding out that cats and dogs are two warring alien species; the ones on Earth were spaceshipwrecked here, and have exploited the dumb native humans (specifically, cats the females, dogs the males) to survive in comfort without their technology.
* [[Cthulhu Mythos]]: The Cats of Earth's Dream Lands are notable for their intelligence, grace, ability to leap across the interstellar void and their ongoing war with the Cats of Saturn.
* ''Cat-A-Lyst'' by [[Alan Dean Foster]] is another one where cats are really advanced and (mostly-)benevolent aliens.
* There's a short story by [[Orson Scott Card]] in which dogs one day start speaking human languages and announcing that they're
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* In '80s ''Ziggy'' Sunday strips, the titular character's pet parrot turned out to be an advance scout for an alien invasion force. This idea since seems to have been dropped.
* A ''[[Garfield]]'' cartoon suggests that cats are invaders attempting to subjugate humanity, and that they are responsible for certain seemingly-mindless actions of dogs and lower-class humans.
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* In the game ''Sheep'' you have to lead the sheep, who have become stupid in the time they were on Earth, back to their home planet.
* ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'': Boo, the miniature [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|giant space hamster]]. At least if you take [[Cloudcuckoolander|Minsc's]] word for it.
** A ''regular'' space hamster (i.e. a hamster living on a spaceship) resembling Boo makes an appearance in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''.
** Ordinary giant space hamsters does in fact exist in the setting (they were bred by a bunch of crazy gnomes to help power their spacefaring 'Jammers), as does miniaturisation magic, so a miniature giant space hamster could well exist. Unless Boo is an ''Awakened'' Miniature Giant Space Hamster, however, he should be just as intelligent as any hamster.
* Some of the NPCs from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' appear to be either bunnies, penguins, bees, and orcas. ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'' actually introduced NPCs such as hummingbirds and chimpanzees.
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== Western Animation ==
* There's an episode of ''[[Invader Zim]]'' with warlike alien raiders who look exactly like babies.
* In one ''[[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]]'' episode ("Twin Beaks"), the hero gets help from aliens that
** Possibly a [[Shout-Out]] to
* In the animated series of ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]'' it is revealed that Frank the Pug looks very much like a dog anyway underneath his disguise suit.
* [[Kid vs. Kat|Kat]] comes from a planet where everyone not only looks like cats, but their language is cat-like, and they have many of the same behavorial patterns as Earth cats. Oh, and there's a race of alien hamsters, too. [[Paranoia Fuel|They're everywhere!]]
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