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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* The manga ''[[Gon]]'' does a pretty good job of making its eponymous dinosaur hero (who, regardless belongs to no known species and has an unrealistically humanoid body; he resembles a very small baby [[Godzilla]]) act pretty much like a dinosaur. None of the animal characters, Gon included, ever speak.
** Assumptions about how dinosaurs would act aside, Gon has a bizarre tendency to mimic other animals, often to hilariously destructive effect. Other times he prefers to just nonchalantly leave a trail of destruction across the land for no better reason than finding something tasty to eat.
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* Stories about androids tend to either ask [[Do Androids Dream?]], or play up the androids' inhuman qualities. ''[[Yuria 100 Shiki]]'' is one of the few works that does both, portraying a protagonist who wants—sometimes desperately—to live like a human, but is repeatedly tripped up by everything from face blindness to an inability to count past a hundred.
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* ''Tyrant'' was a very short-lived comic book that would have followed a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' from birth through death, but only managed to go from birth to slightly later.
* The [[Dark Horse Comics|Dark Horse]] [[Miniseries]] under the ''[[Age of Reptiles]]'' banner had realistic (as far as we know) dinosaur protagonists, and no thought balloons or dialogue.
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* Black Flash the Beaver a short lived prose story from the [[Anthology Comic]] ''[[The Beano]]'' was told from the perspective of a beaver.
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* ''[[Aeon Natum Engel]]'' has done this with the Migou, the local Starfish Aliens. Of course, being who he is, [[Cosmic Horror|Earth Scorpion]] has made them as hard to understand as possible.
* Large portions of the [[Harry Potter]] fan fic ''A Feast in Azkaban'' are narrated from the perspective of Padfoot, Werewolf Lupin, and the dementors.
== Film — Animated. ==
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* ''Cold Moons'' by Aeron Clement was about a group of badgers on a exodus towards the promised land of Elysia where they could live safe from humans. The badgers very portrayed sapient and they had a society with a cadre of elders, but it wasn't that advanced as in Duncton Wood.
* In the post-[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture|motion picture]] Star Trek novel "Ex Machina", several chapters are narrated from an alien point of view, including (obviously) Spock, a fifty year old teenager from highly regimented [[Lawful Neutral]] society, and a bipedal fish-woman with six mouths who communicates through poetry. One of the major themes is how alien human society seems to them, and how difficult they find understanding and interacting with humans.
* It's not a major theme, but occasionally crops up in ''[[Discworld]]'', most prominently in the Witches books which deal with 'Borrowing' (a sort of light possession) of animal minds. They are described in synaesthetic terms: herbivore minds are coiled silver springs, always cautious and ready to flee; predator minds are purple arrowheads of directed purpose; human minds are complicated silver clouds that are impossible to Borrow, but may narrow down to an arrowhead when for example a hunter focuses his attention on his kill; and bees are a literal [[Hive Mind]] also considered impossible to Borrow. Because [[The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body]], any human who tries to ''fully'' possess an animal is drawn into that animal's different and limited perceptions and eventually [[Fate Worse Than Death|loses their sense of self]]. ''[[
** Discworld also covers dogs' different perception of the world, in which scent is the primary sense. Werewolves, with a human frame of context for comparison, describe scents in their wolf form in synaesthetic terms, with sounds and colours.
** Pratchett also likes to go into dogs' unusual ''social'' worlds, especially the relationship to their human owners. One large part of this is the idea that dogs are somewhere halfway between wolves and humans, the latter of whom are, in equal measure, their owners, parents and gods. The enormous impact of the phrase "bad dog!" on a Discworld canine is explained as the result of a deep-seated knowledge that dogs were ''made'' by humans for a certain reason, and being told that they have failed at this purpose fills them with a sort of severe existential dread. Wuffles, the elderly dog of Havelock Vetinari, refers to his owner quite literally as "the god." Of course, there are also quite a lot of Morporkians who think of the Patrician as some kind of all-present, omnipotent force...
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* ''[[Freefall]]'' stars an uplifted Red Wolf, an alien whose species' [[Planet of Hats|hat]] is apparently that of the [[Lovable Rogue]], and a robot [[Cloudcuckoolander]]. The supporting cast is dominated by robots, with only a smattering of humans.
* ''[[21st Century Fox (webcomic)|21st Century Fox]]'' features a cast of [[Funny Animal]]s, but between conserved physiological features and scale (from a mouse to a giraffe), they're not just humans in costume.
* ''[[Nature of Nature's
* ''[[Wurr (Webcomic)|Wurr]]'', in which all of the main characters are [[Civilized Animal|civilized dogs]].
== Web Original ==
* [[Chernobyl Curs]]: An OCT{{context|reason=What does October have to do with this example?}} where all of the characters are sapient dogs, to varying degrees. Since the story is told by multiple people through multiple characters, some show more human-like behavior than others.
* ''[[Wingspan]]'', which has angels.
* ''[http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/ The Things]'', a very strange re-telling of a classic John Carpenter horror movie from the perspective of a distinctly non-human character. Written by [[Peter Watts]] of [[Blindsight]] fame. Beware: [[Body Horror]] and more may await you.
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