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* An aversion occurs in ''Anime/WolfChildren'' when it's explained that traditional werewolf lore as transforming by the full moon and eating people are actually false, alluding to the fact that wolves don't actually howl at the moon and they ''very'' rarely prey on humans.

* Blue Buffalo's advertising for dog and cat foods like comparing pets to their wild relatives. Their dog food ads are passable because dogs are a sub-species of gray wolf, but their cat food ads compare domestic cats to their ''distant'' relatives, such as mountain lions, rather than their closer relatives, such as the African wildcat.

* Gorilla Grodd, a supervillain from the [[Franchise/TheDCU DC Universe]] who is a, shock, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin gorilla]], is frequently shown eating people, especially when Creator/GrantMorrison is writing him. Gorillas, presumably even super-intelligent telepathic gorillas mutated by aliens, are actually herbivores. But Grodd's certainly the sort to eat someone ForTheEvulz even if he'd have trouble digesting them.
** Creator/GeoffJohns repeatedly portrays Grodd as more sadistic than Flash's other rogues because, despite his intelligence, he's "a wild animal" and therefore inherently savage. Past writers have, more accurately, portrayed regular gorillas as {{Gentle Giant}}s and that, if anything, Grodd's intelligence allows him to ''subvert'' that nature.

* In one ''ComicBook/RulahJungleGoddess'' story, the writer seems to think that chimpanzees are baby gorillas! (Earlier, a character identifies a chimpanzee as an orangutan--a species not native to Africa--but as the character is a KnowNothingKnowItAll, this mis-identification may have been intentional.)

* ''Fanfic/HumbleBeginnings'' is a ''RWBY'' oneshot about Zwei but it's off when it comes to dog development. Zwei can [[NoInfantileAmnesia remember things from when he was a day old]], opens his eyes within a week of birth, and is weaned in under a month [[MissingMom without his mother around]] to wean him.

* Monstro from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' is a sperm whale with upper teeth and lines on his belly. Real sperm whales only have lower teeth and do not have lines on their belly. Belly lines only appear on baleen whales, and sperm whales are toothed whales. Not to mention his head is much too wide and his mouth is cavernous; real sperm whales have laterally-flattened heads with a skinny lower jaw.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ferngully}}'': Batty's wings keep changing from one free claw with four fingers supporting the wings, to one free claw with one finger holding the wing, to three or four free claws with one finger holding the wing. Most obvious in the rap.
* Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}'' and ''Goliath II'' have elephant herds led by a male. In real life, female elephants lead herds while males are solitary.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'':
** A family of hyenas is briefly shown laughing. Said hyenas are shown to be striped hyenas, which do not make the "laughing" sounds like their spotted cousins.
** During "Baby Mine", hippos are seen sleeping underwater. While this is something hippos can actually do, it's because they can hold their breath for up to five minutes and have a reflex that allows them to surface while remaining asleep. They don't stay submerged for hours and they certainly don't breathe water as shown in the film - like any other mammal, they would drown.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound:'' During his battle with Copper, Tod is memorably shown with a very fierce snarl. Foxes can't actually make that face. When they do growl or snarl, their muzzles don't wrinkle like that. Tod's snarl is more like a dog, wolf, or coyote.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'':
** Jenna is a red Siberian Husky. While "red" Siberian Huskies do exist, they're more of a brownish tone than a bright red. Jenna's fur invokes a RedheadsAreRavishing more than the actual colour does.
** Balto himself is absurdly tame and well-mannered for a feral wolf-dog. The ''real'' Balto was a normal pet dog (either a Husky or Malamute depending on the source), explaining this.
** In ''WesternAnimation/BaltoIIWolfQuest'', Balto's daughter Aleu is noted as being more wolfish than even her father. Considering that she's a second generation wolf-dog (and her mother is a purebred Husky), this is very unlikely. Her fur color isn't even wolf-looking: she has brown fur and blue eyes.
* ''WesternAnimation/LeoTheLion'': What's ''not'' wrong with the animals in this film? Well, here are a few examples:
** Leo's pride shows five male lions running the pride, when real-life prides have one or two males in charge. Five male lions in charge is begging for lots of infighting for power.
** As lions are obligate carnivores, they can't choose to be vegetarians. Leo's body frame, which the movie tries to say is good because of a vegetarian lifestyle, is less sleek and more emaciated.
** Due to the way embryos are formed, it'd be impossible for baby elephants' tails to be connected at birth.
** Leo and Uncle Lope the antelope force a female zebra to give milk to the baby animals. She's shown to have nipples on the stomach (more like a dog or a cat) as opposed to having an udder between the legs like real-life zebras and other equines. The same can almost be said for Savannah the elephant, who nurses her calves like a mother dog or cat (her teats would be on the chest, not the stomach).
** Leo and Savannah's [[MixAndMatchCritters Mix-and-Match Critter]] babies. That is all.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'':
** Bolt is a tiny, tiny White Shepherd. At his adult size he's the same size as a house cat. He's puppy-sized, not adult-sized. Another White Shepherd is shown, and it's the same size, so it isn't just Bolt being unusually small.
** Mittens is a [[spoiler:declawed]] stray cat. In real cats, this involves [[spoiler:removing part of their paws]], which often leads to physical pain on top of difficulties hunting.
* It seems that the bulls and cows of ''WesternAnimation/{{Barnyard}}'' and its spinoff ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'' are separate species. Case in point, Otis is a [[AnimalGenderBender male cow]] and one episode has a female bull. In the video game adaptation Otis squirts what the devs probably ''wish'' you thought was [[{{Squick}} milk]].
* Marty from ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' is treated as if he's having a HollywoodMidLifeCrisis at age ten. While it's true that wild zebras have a life expectancy of twenty-five, captive zebras have a life expectancy of ''forty''.
* Several works by Creator/DingoPictures prominently feature a raccoon, a squirrel, and two gophers that for some reason move like kangaroos! ''Legend of Atlantis'' had dolphins with nostrils on the base of their beaks instead of blowholes on the top of their heads. ''Balto'' had a seal with buckteeth that moves around on land.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TomSawyer2000'', Tom's skunk classmate has a clothespin near the tip of his tail, which was pointless as skunk musk actually comes from anal glands.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'' has a wolf that has dew claws on its back feet, which is a trait only found in some dogs; wolves never have dew claws on their back feet. [[IncorrectAnimalNoise It also sounds like a big cat.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie'': The FramingDevice of the movie starts with a family of porcupines causing the veggies' bus to crash when the mother fires her quills at one of its tires (with one of the baby porcupines nailing Bob the Tomato in the behind with a quill of its own afterward). As noted above, porcupines can't shoot their quills, which are specialized hairs and don't detach until they get stuck in an attacker. The [[InCharacterCommentaries commentary by Larry and Mr. Lunt]] actually acknowledges this, with Larry stating that the in-universe film crew had to use special effects to fire the quills.

* The original ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' films have gorillas as the violent, militaristic apes. But in reality, chimps are known to be much more violent than gorillas. Probably a case of ScienceMarchesOn, as gorillas were often depicted as violent in the past. Also probably why the 2001 version had a chimp as the main antagonist. Also, the orangutans are the leaders of the ape society due to their wise looks and supposed social skills... and it's been proven they often live very far from each other (researchers might spend years seeing the same orangutan over a large area).
** It's funny that they make fun of the "apes mistaken for monkeys" thing in the ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' remake, but played straight in that to make them seem more attractive, the female apes were given eyebrows, something real apes do not have, and human-sized breasts, evident when the female ape is being "sexy" for the Senator Nado.

* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'' Rocket is frequently referred to as a rodent, which raccoons aren't. It's justified in that it's normally said derogatorily, something which Rocket drunkenly makes clear actually hurts him immensely on Knowhere.
* An infamous example in ''Film/TheBeastmaster'', with the ''very'' un-ferret-like behavior and vocalizations by Kodo and Podo. Several scenes show the ferrets gnawing through ropes in a manner more typical of movie-hero rodents, and although ferrets ''do'' have vocalizations, they rarely make them outside of play or as an alarm call, and certainly don't make the squeaking sounds they're depicted making in the films. The pair of them are also identical in size, yet are shown to have produced babies at the end; real male ferrets are ''much'' larger than females.
* In ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', Tim the Enchanter refers to the Killer Rabbit as a "bad-tempered rodent". Rabbits are ''not'' rodents!

* ''Mariel of Redwall'', of the ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' series, mentions Gabool the Wild having gold replacements for his canine teeth. Sadly, he is a rat, and rats do not have canine teeth to begin with. Judging by the illustrations of Gabool, the author may have meant his incisors ... which would only cause ''more'' problems, as rodent incisors grow constantly from their roots and would push replacements out in a matter of weeks. Nor would gold, a soft metal, be anywhere ''near'' durable enough for a rodent's gnawing needs.

* In ''Literature/PrinceCaspian'', Reepicheep the talking mouse has lost his tail in battle, and he argues with Aslan over whether it needs to be regrown. Both of them seem to think a mouse's tail has no practical value, and is of use only as a badge of honor or vanity, but the tails of mice and rats are actually important thermoregulatory structures, without which he'd be quite vulnerable to heat stroke. This is more likely ScienceMarchesOn, rather than a failure on C. S. Lewis's part. Research on thermoregulation in rodents was not common knowledge in 1950-51, when the earliest reference to it was published in 1958. It makes even less sense in Reepicheep's case since wielding a sword would probably be ''much'' easier with a tail to balance with.
* The above mentioned tail problem does not seem to be an issue for the narrator in Roald Dahl's ''Literature/TheWitches'' [[spoiler: after he gets turned into a mouse.]] Considering that ''he swings from his tail'', it still invokes this trope. Mice do not have prehensile tails, nor can the tails support the weight of a mouse for more than a couple of seconds.
* According to his backstory from ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', James Henry Trotter's parents were eaten alive by an [[RhinoRampage escaped zoo rhinoceros]]. In real life, rhinos are supposed to be ''herbivores''. Fortunately, the book lampshades this as being very strange behaviour for a rhino, and the film adaptation averts it by changing said rhino from an actual rhinoceros to a large rhinoceros-shaped demon made entirely out of thunderclouds.
* Kim Harrison persistently seems to think ferrets are rodents in a couple of her books about The Hollows.

* Creator/ETAHoffmann describes dolphins as having ''scales'' in ''Literature/TheNutcrackerAndTheMouseKing'' and has them blowing water through their ''nostrils.'' (Dolphins have a single blowhole on the top of their head, and they don't actually blow water out through it.)

* Among other inaccuracies and instances of ScienceMarchesOn, ''Literature/MobyDick'' has a substantial section in which the narrator tries to argue that whales ''aren't'' mammals and that anyone who thinks they are is delusional. The extent to which this is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek--if at all--is left for the reader to decide.
* Jan Brett's children's book ''Honey... Honey... Lion!'' utilizes the apocryphal myth ([[StockAnimalFacts commonly depicted as fact in older sources]]) that honeyguide birds lead honey badgers to bee hives.

* ''Literature/{{Seeker|Bears}}s'': "She-bear" is not an actual term for female bears. Female bears are called "sows".
* ''Literature/{{Bravelands}}'':
** Baboons are referred to as having "claws". In reality, baboons have nails like humans.
** In the books, baboons have the ability to create rudimentary tools. In real life, chimpanzees have shown this ability, but not baboons.
** Zigzagged with the way lions taking over prides is presented. It ''is'' mentioned that lions usually kill the previous cubs of the pride. Titan attempts this but ultimately decides to let Valor live.

* In the ''Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'' novels, shrews are repeatedly referred to as rodents. At the time the books were written, they were considered members of the now-defunct Insectivore order (they've since been [[ScienceMarchesOn moved to a new order, Eulipotyphla]]).
* ''Literature/GuardianCatsAndTheLostBooksOfAlexandria'':
** Polo, a ferret, has a SweetTooth. Ferrets are obligate carnivores who can't taste sweetness.
** Bait is a purebred Russian Blue who has won several awards at cat shows. His eyes, however, are the wrong colour. He has yellow eyes, which are considered a flaw in show cats. Show Russian Blues ''must'' have green eyes.
* In Creator/RoaldDahl's ''The Enormous Crocodile'', the titular crocodile survives a charge from Humpy Rumpy the hippopotamus because "crocodiles are tough that even a hippopotamus couldn't hurt them". In reality, hippopotamuses are much bigger and stronger than Nile crocodiles, their powerful jaws capable of chopping the reptiles in half.
* ''Literature/ArtemisFowl: The Time Paradox'' mistakenly refers to a gorilla as ''Troglodytes gorilla''. Gorillas ''were'' very briefly put in the genus ''Troglodytes'' (also containing chimpanzees); however, when the novel came out, they had been categorized their own genus, ''Gorilla'', for over 170 years.

* An episode of the Animal Planet series ''Pets 101'' claimed that kinkajous are marsupials, when they're actually members of the raccoon family.
* The ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E10KingDinosaur King Dinosaur]]" has Joel and the 'Bots mistaking a kinkajou for a lemur. Kevin Murphy acknowledges this in ''The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide'':
-->The "Joey the Lemur" song is fraught with peril... the lemur in the film isn't a lemur at all, but a kinkajou, a nasty little racoonlike critter from the South American rain forest. Two of our fans were kind enough to write in and gently correct us. Bob and Jane, thank you. We are now filled with deep shame. I hope you're satisfied.
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the ''Series/ModernFamily'' episode "Truth Be Told". To cover up his role in the death of his turtle, Jay tells Manny that a raccoon killed him. Manny counters this by noting aspects of his story that are inconsistent with raccoon biology.
* The Creator/AnimalPlanet show ''Series/BreedAllAboutIt'' teaches about different breeds of dogs. Despite this, not all their facts are correct. For example, they mentioned that English Bulldogs were bred so wrinkly to help keep blood out of their eyes during bull-fighting. This is incorrect as Bulldogs in the 1800s were less wrinkly and had longer muzzles.

* In "Füchse", the Music/{{Beginner}} and Music/SamyDeluxe compare themselves to a pack of foxes. [[LampshadeHanging The album/video version ends with a caller pointing out that foxes aren't pack animals.]]
* In "Gorilla", Music/BrunoMars compares his sexual performance to that of, well, a gorilla. If his partner was more familiar with the animal, she would likely find such claims less than impressive, as a male gorilla's penis is only about [[TeenyWeenie 1.25 inches long]], one of the smallest in the animal kingdom compared to their overall size.

* ''Franchise/{{Barbie}}'': The Barbie Newborn Pups toy has a dog who gives birth to puppies via pushing down on her legs. Except that the puppies are "born" by falling straight down from her abdomen rather than coming out from under her tail, where a dog's vaginal opening actually is.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' had inaccurate animations for certain mounts, including horses that run like cheetahs (with legs outstretched in the suspension phase rather than collected), and galloping elephants and mammoths (which, given their huge size and weight, would cripple their kneecaps if they did this in real life). These animations have since been replaced with more accurate ones.

* Clanker from ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' is claimed to be a metal whale [[note]]He has a blowhole.[[/note]] despite the fact that he has gills. His teeth also make him look like a shark.
* ''VideoGame/ApeEscape'': Pretty much okay as a title for the game, yet everyone seems to call the titular primates monkeys. This is a case of LostInTranslation, as the original title was "saru getchu"; Saru meaning monkey. Although this becomes a case of AccidentallyCorrectWriting, when you realize apes are technically monkeys or simians.
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** Knuckles looks nothing like an echidna. Not even remotely. Few ''Sonic'' characters resemble the animals they are based on, with Tails being the closest to looking like an actual fox (barring the [[HeliCritter two tails]], of course).
** The [[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog Western]] [[WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM cartoons]] also had Dr. Robotnik derisively call Sonic a "rodent", which hedgehogs are not.
** Several countries mistranslated "hedgehog" as "porcupine" (though, ironically, Sonic being a porcupine would make Robotnik's "rodent" assessment accurate).
** Sonic's inability to swim was due to Creator/{{Sega}} thinking real hedgehogs couldn't swim, when they actually can.
** Sonic's favourite food is chili dogs, which are mentioned in ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'' as being quite spicy. Humans are the only mammals who willingly eat spicy foods, as spiciness is supposed to be a ''deterrent'' that plants use to stop mammals from eating them. Capsaicin is not an irritant to non-mammals, and birds are known to be fond of peppers.
** Sonic's best friend is a fox. In real life, foxes eat hedgehogs.
** Even ignoring the biological impossibility of a fox being born with two tails, there is no way, anatomically speaking, that Tails should be able to spin his tails like a propeller to lift himself into the air the way that he does - spinning both tails in the opposite direction, which would just result in them getting twisted together. And even if he did spin them in the same direction, it's very unlikely he'd be able to spin them fast enough to actually provide enough lift to get his body off the ground.
** In ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'', a RunningGag is Chip offering chocolate to whomever he meets. This includes Tails (a fox) and a phoenix (a giant bird). Chocolate is very bad for animals. Notably, Sonic is also able to consume chocolate, ice cream, and other things that would make a real hedgehog very sick, if not outright kill them.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'', writing "monotreme" gives you a porcupine (not an echidna, an actual porcupine).

* The in-game databank of ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' erroneously refers to hares as rodents (they're actually lagomorphs).
** Amaterasu is clearly a female wolf, yet one joke attack, Golden Fury, has her peeing on her enemies with one raised leg like a male canine.

* The life sim ''VideoGame/WolfDOS'' uses the [[AlphaAndBetaWolves outdated wolf hierarchy system]]. This was known to be outdated even at the time of release.
* ''VideoGame/TokyoJungle:''
** Omnivores do not exist. All animals are classified as either carnivores or herbivores, including the human JokeCharacter, which is classified as a herbivore [[FridgeLogic (apparently he's a strict vegan even when struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world crawling with dangerous animals?)]] This is [[JustifiedTrope necessary]] for balance reasons, as the game would be less challenging if the player had access to all sources of food, and it would make people even less likely to play as herbivores, which already fall under ScrappyMechanic for a lot of people.
** Wolves and hyenas frequently bark and howl. Real wolves ''do'' bark, but only rarely and it's a warning call instead of the aggressive, dog-like way it's portrayed in the game. [[IncorrectAnimalNoise Hyenas do not bark or howl]] as they are not even canines (they belong to their own group, which is slightly more related to cat family compared to the dog family.) These are both common mistakes.
** The hyenas are led by males (and you can only play as a male), which is odd because in real-life female hyenas are larger and more aggressive than males, and dominate them to the point female ''cubs'' outrank the highest ranking males. Hyenas are infamous for all this.
** The cheetah, while one of the fastest animals in-game, is still nowhere near as fast as its real counterpart, which is by far the fastest land animal. It's difficult to catch up to some of the herbivores in the game. It's speed is intended to be represented stylistically in gameplay by having a very high stamina stat, which can be used to spam the dodge command to get across areas faster, but real cheetahs have very poor stamina. This is all probably also for balance reasons.
** The panther is basically just a black cheetah reskin with some minor stat differences. It's portrayed as equally fast as the cheetah with a comparable amount of stamina. Obviously, real panthers (which are black jaguars or leopards) are nowhere near as fast as a cheetah.
** Rabbits scream when killed. This is disturbingly enough, [[SubvertedTrope actually]] something [[RealityIsUnrealistic real rabbits sometimes do,]] despite being thought to be always silent.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'': In [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Atlantica]], there is a dolphin with vertical tail flukes like a fish.

* In ''Webcomic/OffWhite'', a conversation between Othala and Raigho suggests that a female wolf leading a pack is unusual. In reality, wolf packs are a nuclear family structure, and having the eldest female parent lead a pack is not at all unusual.
** The pack is shown hunting a bull elk. This is (possible but) unlikely because wolves, like most predators, usually target the sick, the young, the weak and anything else less hard to catch than a healthy adult animal.
** There are a blue-eyed and a red-eyed raven, and Iki, a wolf, has blue eyes, mostly[[note]] young wolves have blue eyes, but they change color as they get older[[/note]] unnatural colors for those animals. This is intentional, it indicates the color of their spirits.

* The flash clip ''[[http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/dugong/ Dugong]]'' begins with words 'Dugong, dugong it's a cow of the se-e-e-a. Dugong, dugong, also known as the manatee'. The problem is that dugong (''Dugong dugong'') and manatees (genus ''Trichechus'') are different animals. Furthermore, the song contains the phrase "Compared to dolphin, its very close cousin...". Dugong and dolphins are water mammals, but hardly 'very close cousins'. Manatees and dugongs (Sirenia) are more closely related to elephants and aardvarks than to dolphins, while cetaceans are closer to hippopotamuses and swine.

* ''[[http://notalwaysright.com/somebody-took-an-evolutionary-detour/16854 This customer]]'' from Website/NotAlwaysRight, who believes that chickens are mammals because they "have meat."

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': In one episode, when Bobby gets a summer job for a guy who cleans poop off lawns, he and his employer gross out his folks by describing an incident at work: their discovery of deposits of gigantic turds, scattered all over an estate's grounds. Turns out it was alpaca poo, as a neighbor's damaged fence had let a whole herd go trespassing ... and it also turns out that the writers chose the worst possible animal to blame it on, as alpacas produce lots of tiny "beans" of dung, and herds of them do so all in one place. Obscure, but a single phone call to a petting zoo could've rectified this one.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Ron Stoppable has a pet naked mole rat named Rufus that he carries around with him. This would be incredibly difficult in real life as, despite being mammals, naked mole rats are eusocial and cold-blooded, relying on the warmth of their colony or the coolness of their inner dens to regulate body temperature. Rufus is also shown eating cheese, but real naked mole rats eat potatoes and yams (multiple times, as they even eat their own poop to re-digest them).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSnorks'': One episode has what's clearly a baleen whale referred to as a killer whale, which is also shown trying to eat a baby whale like a killer whale would, despite its lack of teeth.
* ''WesternAnimation/ImAnAnimal'': One episode has a black rhino with only one horn and a white rhino that was actually white.
* ''WesternAnimation/DinoSquad'': One episode has a baby gorilla with a ''[[InexplicablyTailless tail.]]''
* ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown'': In the animated series, all the rabbits have pads on the bottoms of their paws.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'': Episode 7 has a scene with a fox hunting a rabbit. The fox makes noises that are probably stock dog noises, and the rabbit ''squeaks'' like a rodent.
* ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus'': One episode features a possum making rodent noises.
* [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Elmer Fudd]], an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'', and [[WesternAnimation/BrandyAndMrWhiskers Mr. Whiskers]] erroneously call rabbits rodents.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOldManOfTheMountain'': The animal at the beginning, which is apparently a mountain lion, has a mane. Unlike lions (which are a different species), mountain lions do not have manes. This may or may not have been intended as a VisualPun.

* ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo'' had at least one episode where Yin and/or Yang throw up. However, since Yin and Yang are rabbits, they shouldn't be able to vomit.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPussInBoots'': Pajuna the Highland cow provides milk to her customers at her bar [[ConstantlyLactatingCow despite having no husband or children]].
* ''WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale'': The titular chipmunks both have dog-like noses and short deer-like tails, something real chipmunks do not have.
* ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle2007'': One episode has a rhinoceros skeleton with the horns still intact as if they were bones. A rhino's horn is made up of keratin, so when the animal dies it would have rotted away with the flesh if not quicker.

* ''WesternAnimation/AnnabellesWish'' depicts reindeer with button noses instead of moose-like snouts that they have in real life.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1992'' depicts humpback whales with teeth instead of baleens.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'':
** Norbert and Daggett hardly resemble actual beavers, which is frequently lampshaded throughout the show. They still have white incisors and actually eat wood stereotypical of cartoon beavers.
** "Moby Dopes" has an orca that eats humans, something real orcas don't do.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** The episode "No Meals on Wheels" has a short scene with Stewie tampering with a customer's food by getting a rat drunk, causing it to vomit on the food. The problem is that rats are physically incapable of vomiting.
** One CutawayGag perpetrates the myth that spotted hyenas are scavengers, with the one shown in the gag even claiming he's not a capable hunter.
** "To Love and Die in Dixie" has Meg refer to raccoons as rodents. They are carnivorans.
* ''WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction'': Parodied in the segment "Bugs Bunny?", where Bugs gets rejected by a colony of more accurate-looking rabbits because he doesn't act or look like them.
* In one ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch where Bugs Bunny is going to have a rap battle with Elmer, Daffy informs a rehearsing Bugs that he's next. As a result, Bugs {{Stress Vomit}}s. However, rabbits don't vomit in real life.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' briefly showed a family of hyenas laughing. Said hyenas are shown to be striped hyenas, which do not make the "laughing" sounds like their spotted cousins.

* KillerGorilla

* BlindBats

* ConstantlyLactatingCow
* HuggyHuggyHippos

* SomewhereAnEquestrianIsCrying

* WolvesAlwaysHowlAtTheMoon