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Photo of the Day. Another instance is being unable to resist trying to eat a mermaid who visits their coffee shop. There is an episode where, at the start, Kagome gets Inuyasha to fetch a stick, much to his annoyance. He'll also shake off like a dog when wet, or scratch his ear with his foot, in addition to his nose being always being damp, only drying out when he has a cold, he buried Kaede he thought she was dead until he realized she was alive and left her head sticking out of the ground in episode four with his foot, and when tracking a scent, he is down on all fours. The Mink Tribe in One Piece is a race of Petting Zoo People who still have animal traits, most humorously shown by Wanda, the otherwise civilized dog woman who has a tendency to lick people's faces and is obsessed with Brook.

Team Rocket distracted him at least once with a ball of yarn that he excitedly ran after and played with and he was entranced by cat nip. Later episodes have him using Furry Denial for humor. Neko-sensei will occasionally wash himself like the cat he is. Actually a plot point with Ahiru. If she does anything that resembles her true duck self, she will turn back into a duck. The animal characters of Shirokuma Cafe exhibit this fairly often for example, Panda eating bamboo.

It both occurs and is occasionally subverted in Hyper Police. Natsuki Sasahara, the protagonist, is a Cat Girl and sometimes acts in a typically catgirlish sort of way, except that it's not always a result of her nature but because she acts like that on purpose; she seems to be obsessed with cats in a human sort of way, and sometimes when life is too hard or when she has too much responsibility, wishes she was just a cat. The cats in Sailor Moon normally act pretty human despite not looking like them.

However, some episodes will occasionally show them in a more feline light. In one episode of Sonic X , it is mentioned that bats like Rouge have sonar that can sense things in the dark.

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Manjimutt from Yo-Kai Watch was a human who, due to the circumstances of his death, is now a human-faced dog. Despite predominantly acting like a human he has an obsession with bones and cannot resist howling at the moon. Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog: Big the Cat chased a ball of yarn. It's been shown that echidnas hatch from eggs. Rather often the humor in Lupo Alberto set in a world of Funny Animals comes from the characters suddenly acting like animals: An early strip had Alberto a wolf being caught by his girlfriend Marta a hen while he's sneaking around with her best friend-and interrupting her jealous rant to tell her he finds ridiculous she's jealous of his midnight snack.


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Many of Marta's relatives fear Alberto because he's a wolf and think he could eat them any moment On one occasion Moses, the farm's sheepdog that always beats Alberto up, was foiled when Alberto grabbed his stick and threw it, resulting in the dog chasing it. Moses is also sometimes terrified of loud noises, especially those from blank-only handguns in Italy called "scacciacani", that translates as " dog banisher ". This is in spite of him owning a rifle and someetimes using it. Enrico la Talpa a mole is rather prone to this, as he lives underground and often pokes out from his house, sometimes mentions having just eaten something a mole would eat, and suddenly digging his way out of trouble he and his wife are actually supernaturally good diggers when motivated.

The rabbit couple of the farm has lots of children. Silvietta the dunnock usually acts like everyone else, but can start flying at any moment. Also, she's vulnerable to bird-specific game calls. Davidson's fanfics Fanfiction , Fimfiction make a point of making it clear that the characters are horses who happen to think like humans, not humans who happen to have horse bodies.

The characters' body parts are referred to in terms of equine anatomy "pastern", "cannon", "frog", etc. Also, there are references to mares being in heat only in spring. The author, apparently, was surprised to find out that most bronies aren't experts on horsemanship and that the terminology would go over their heads.

This Is The Life uses this quite regularly as well, with the human protagonist often being surprised when the ponies do pony things. One chapter even references this trope almost directly, with him remarking that he tends to forget they are ponies because for the most part they think like humans. In Sophistication and Betrayal , the protagonist gets Rarity some flowers when taking her out on a date, and is promptly surprised when she eats one for taste.

The next time he slips a note in, reminding her not to eat them immediately.

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From My Brave Pony: Ponies rely on their sense of smell more than their sight for identifying others, and they have herd instincts. Xvital, being a feline, tends to curl up like a cat and make mewing sounds. Night Blade, a batpony, hisses like a bat when things get too bright or too loud. Wind Breaker, a griffon, sometimes stretches his neck out and chirps like a bird.

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Rex, a member of a canine species, is known to bark and wag his tail, and during the escape from Canterlot he has his head sticking over the side of their skimmer, his tongue hanging out like a real dog's would. In Zestar Apple Flambe , pony mares go into regular estrus. Spike had the misfortune of being stuck inside a room with Apple Bloom when she gets hers. In It's a Dangerous Business, Going Out Your Door , Rarity, Rainbow and Applejack don't pack much in the way of food — when they make camp for the first time, they simply graze from the surrounding vegetation.

While Rarity dislikes doing this, her main complaint is that she doesn't like to eat the grass "raw" and without any seasoning. Horses generally have a lifespan of 25 to In Claro de Luna , Octavia is described as old by 26 and it's mentioned that she's outlived the average by a year. In Gensokyo 20XX , we have these with Ran. Occasionally it is acknowledged that she would act fox-like, on example of this being that she would consume rodents on occasion, which foxes actually do. There is also the fact that in once it is noted that she does make sounds that foxes make, like gekkering when she got in a fight.

There is also the fact that she's bore a few litters, something foxes also do, though, in that case it can be hand waved in that the authoress wasn't sure if kitsune bear litters or just one if not two mythology is also fuzzy on this. Apparently, she goes though a molt cycle, again also something foxes tend to do but that is when it's warm in the spring to be more precise.

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It's mentioned that Chen, a nekomata, purrs to herself, and it's previously noted that she used to hunt mice and rats. Inverted with Reimu in Foundling , as, having been around kitsune pups, she takes on their mannerisms and acts as they do, however, when she's being taunted in one chapter, she drops this momentarily, picks up a rock, and hurls it at the offending tanuki.

As soon as Mr. Read, Arthur and Kate left the room, Mrs. Read furiously turned towards her ex-husband. What type of a husband are you, you Read replied dryly, "I am an aardvark. In The Adventures of Puss in Boots a bandit catches him off guard in the middle of a fight by distracting him with a length of string. The Cars franchise shows a Sentient Vehicle equivalent of this trope to remind viewers that the characters are in fact still cars or other vehicles. Sawyer's ear twitches when she's annoyed, she yowls realistically when her tail is caught in a door, and when a fire escape ladder hits the ground with her on it, she jumps off with fur bristled, claws out, and eyes darting about neurotically, before immediately composing herself and acting like nothing happened.

Chicken Little shows various animals dropping furry reminders from time to time. For example, a father and son pair of dogs playing frisbee with the son catching the disc in his mouth. The animals in Fantastic Mr. Fox do various animal-ish things throughout the film, but the real kicker is how they eat at the dinner table. Puss in Boots is full of it, usually in relation to Puss himself, who acts like a Zorro Expy , until we see him drink milk by rapidly lapping from the shot glass , purr, lick himself, make big kitty eyes usually intentional , make cat noises when someone hits him with an object, chase a sunbeam, or bring an apparently dead animal to his adopted mother.

Several in the Kung Fu Panda films. It usually manifests as characters using their animal traits in combat, making realistic animal sounds, Running on All Fours , etc. Kung Fu Panda 2: Master Mantis references the fact that the female mantis bites the head off of the male in mating. The Soothsayer is a goat, and like all goats is an Extreme Omnivore. In Secrets of the Furious Five , it's shown that Tigress was feared as a terrifying monster at her orphanage and she didn't now her own strength as a cub.

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She may be a Funny Animal Vegetarian Carnivore , but she's still a tiger mostly surrounded by prey animals. Europe's Most Wanted in the scene where Vitaly the tiger and Alex the lion are arguing about the former's leaving, Alex tries to tear out some of Vitaly's things, he drops a ball of yarn and they both spontaneously start to throw it up like regular cats. It's brought up a few times in the movies that the characters still age at the same rate as their real-life counterparts. In the first film, Marty the zebra reaches his 10th birthday and claims that his life is already half over.

In Europe's Most Wanted , Alex asks if Gia the jaguar is five during their banter, to which she replies that she is. Eeyore's tail is also attached with a tack. At one point, Donkey believes that he is dying, noticing that he can't feel his toes. He then remembers that as a donkey he does not have toes. An Illustrated Chronology of Furry Fandom, —". Explorations in Warner Bros. Furry Fandom Conventions, Retrieved 28 June Archived from the original on Archived from the original PDF on Making Mascots and Fabricating Fursuits.

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