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Sometimes, the [[Token Minority]] will be glaringly out of place for their locale (e.g. seemingly the only black person in medieval Europe).
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In some casts of animal, alien, or monster characters, World of Funny Animals or not, there is a majority species and one or more minority species. If there are animals in a cast of characters, the majority of them are going to be mammals in most works, whether the world is a [[World of Funny Animals]] or not. Understandable as humans are mammals and cats and dogs are easier to anthropomorphize than snakes. To keep the the cast of characters from being completely mammalian, the token non-mammal comes in. Usually a bird, though reptiles, amphibians, and even invertebrates are certainly not unheard of.
If there is a cast made up of anthropomorphic animals, most likely most of them are of the [[Funny Animal]]/[[Civilized Animal]] persuasion, whether the cast of animals lives in a [[Lions and Tigers
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