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7[[caption-width-right:337:L - R, top to bottom: [[Anime/BNABrandNewAnimal Michiru Kagemori]], [[WesternAnimation/FlushedAway Roddy]], [[WesternAnimation/SummerCampIsland Hedgehog]] and [[VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter Chocolat Gelato]].]]
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9In some animated films, shows, and video games, the characters - anthropomorphic {{Funny Animal}}s or zoomorphic {{Beast M|an}}en - have fur, feathers, scales, feathers, etc. that is either solid colored or look like human skintones while the less/non-anthropomorphic animals ({{Civilized|Animal}}/{{Talking|Animal}}/{{Nearly Normal|Animal}}) resemble more typical animals you find.
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11One variant is to have a character (usually a BeastMan) have fur, feathers, or scales that look like or practically are human-like skin, as well as a normal head of hair atop it (sometimes facial and body hair is added), in contrast to non-anthro/less anthro animals, which do not. In this variant, the non-anthro or less anthro animals can either have markings or be solid-colored without seeming human-skintoned. This variant is a popular choice when designing {{Beast M|an}}en in juxtaposition with [[NearlyNormalAnimal "normal" animals]].
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13Another variant is for anthropomorphic animals to be solid colored, but without it looking like a human skintone. The non-anthro/less anthro animals in this variant tend to have various markings on their fur, feathers, scales, skin, etc. This variant is sometimes used when designing {{Funny Animal}}s in juxtaposition with [[NearlyNormalAnimal "normal" animals]].
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15Yet another variant is to have the more anthropomorphic version of one character to have fur, feathers, or scales that look like human skin or actually just have human-like skin, and the less anthropomorphic version to either have makings or be solid-colored without looking like human skin tone.
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17This trope is part of a tendency for animal characters to be drawn with less colors, complex markings and patterns the higher up the SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism they are.
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19Sometimes, the anthro animals have a head of hair, either regardless of gender or [[FurryFemaleMane depending on gender]] (or [[NonMammalianHair if they are not mammals)]], but non-anthro or less anthro animals lack one. Sometimes, the anthro animals lack a head of hair just as much as the non-anthro/less anthro animals.
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21It gets really funky when {{Beast M|an}}en (or any animal regardless of [[SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism anthropomorphism level]] for that matter) wear makeup or get tattooed.
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23Subtrope of FunnyAnimalAnatomy. Related to ThroughAFaceFullOfFur, FurryBaldness, and TuftOfHeadFur. Contrast FurIsClothing.
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32* One shot in the ''Anime/{{Aggretsuko}}'' episode "An Impenetrable Wall" shows Retsuko's light-brown fur-covered hand red and blistered from trying to play a guitar.
33* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': Unlike the average LittleBitBeastly {{Cat Girl}}, Izutsumi is furry all over. However, she doesn't look like it at first because large parts of her fur are flesh-colored (or possibly transparent). It's only clear in close-ups that these skin-like patches are as furry as the rest of her.
34* Cheadle Yorkshire of ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' appears to either have flesh-toned fur, or human skin and a dog's snout and nose. She also has paw-shaped markings on her otherwise human-looking hands.
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38* Many (but not all) of the {{Dogfaces}} of Carl Barks's ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse comics, the ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse comics, ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' and ''An Extremely Goofy Movie'' have a fur or skin color that resembles various human skintones, often have human-like head hair, and sometimes do have human-like facial hair and body hair (the Beagle Boys for example have stubble and hair on their arms).
39** This is in contrast to the other animal characters in the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts world (non-anthro, CivilizedAnimal, or FunnyAnimal), whose fur/feathers/etc. do not resemble human skintones, whether they have markings like WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale or are (mostly) solid colored like Pluto and Donald Duck.
40** The Beagle Boys in WesternAnimation/MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers, unlike in Carl Barks' and Don Rosa's comics and in WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987, are grey. Even though it they are still solid colored, they are a type of color that makes them look like they have fur.
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44* Fausticorn and Bonniecorn are ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' [=OCs=] based on Creator/LaurenFaust and Bonnie Zacherle, the creators of ''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' and ''My Little Pony'' respectively. They're depicted as having cream or white coloured coats.
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48* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'':
49** Badger from the Disney adaptation of ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows'' is furless with a light human-like skintone and a white beard, but still has the facial markings of a badger. Badger in the original story and and in other adaptations, on the other hand, looks slightly less anthropomorphic, had a tail, and was furred like a normal badger.
50** Also, Mr. Toad's skin looks sort of human skintone except the back of his head.
51* Similar to ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'' example, Friar Tuck the from the WorldOfFunnyAnimals Disney adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' is furless with a light human-like skintone and a white beard, but still has the facial markings of a badger.
52* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'':
53** Any Native American mice will have reddish fur that echo the typical skin color of their human counterparts. The rest of the mice have brownish fur for the most part.
54** Occasional characters, such as Bridget in the first movie and Nellie Brie in the 4th, have Caucasian skintones and don't look like they have any fur at all (or very little fur anyway).
55* The animal looking characters in ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' do not have fur. It could be justified in that they're aliens.
56* The rats from ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'' are all depicted with fur that is colored like human flesh. Exceptions would be two of the evil Toad's henchrats, Whitey, who has white fur due to him being an albino rat; and Thimblenose Ted, a zombie-like rat [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin with a thimble on his nose]], who has gray fur.
57* Peg from ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'' is little more than a [[InkSuitActor dog version]] of Music/PeggyLee. This is complete with [[EarsAsHair baggy ears like Peggy's hair]] and a blonde fur tone similar to Peggy Lee's hair colour (that also doubles as being similar to her skin tone).
58* ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'':
59** The Artful Dodger character, Dodger, is white-furred except for splotches of reddish brown (including a spot on his head, similar to hair).
60** The Mexican-American Chihuahua Tito has light brownish fur.
61** Rita has brown fur with even darker brown ears (acting as hair).
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65* Many characters from the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series play with this trope to some degree or another. Many of the characters have apricot human-skintone looking muzzles, bellies, and arms. Rouge the Bat for instance has an apricot human-skintone body and muzzle, and a white head. It's left vague if Sonic has peach colored fur or if that's his skin, though certain models imply the latter.
66* Leo and Mauri from ''VideoGame/LunarEternalBlue'' appear to exhibit this trait, though it's more apparent in the Sega CD original. In the remake, it looks more like they have human skin with animal noses, and in Leo's case, patches of fur.
67* The [[BeastMan Caninu and Felineko]] of ''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter'' have both body fur and a full head of hair. Notably, females [[HumanoidFemaleAnimal tend to have peach fur and shorter muzzles]], while males tend to stick to one or two colors (though from a larger palette containing greys, whites, oranges, and other colors that wouldn't make much sense for a human skin).
68* Poodles Galore from ''[[VideoGame/SPYFox Spy Fox: Operation Ozone]]'' has caucasian fur, save for her ears.
69* Starting with ''VideoGame/CrashOfTheTitans'' the titular protagonist of ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' has had tattoos on his fur. They were removed when he appeared in ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}''.
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73* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Between Cuddles with his blushing cheeks, Toothy with his freckles, Lumpy with his occasionally visible tan lines, Mime with his face paint, and Disco Bear and Cro-Marmot with full heads of hair (and chest hair in the former's case), fur and skin are pretty much interchangeable among the series' cast of {{Funny Animal}}s.
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77* In an early Webcomic/OzyAndMillie strip, Millie implies that tanning is basically the sun making ones fur a slightly darker shade of whatever color it is.
78* In an ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' filler strip, Nanase [[https://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/2004-05-30 lampshades]] the weirdness of her and other characters being drawn as largely non-anthropomorphic cats but with hair on top of fur.
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82* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'':
83** Sue Ellen the FunnyAnimal cat has red hair and solid peach fur over the rest of her body, but Nemo the normal pet cat is black and white with a bicolor pattern.
84** Almost all the anthro animals are human skintone colored or otherwise solid colored, whether or not they have a head of hair, facial hair, or human-like body hair. It's left vague if fur color signifies what color their skin would be as humans or if they're supposed to closely resemble what kind of animal they're supposed to be based on, as the series does a bit of both. For example, the Brain is a brown-furred bear who is explicitly African-American, but Arthur (aardvark) and George (moose) are both tan-furred and are implied to be white; Buster, being a rabbit, is ''literally'' white-furred. Sue Ellen's pen pal from Tibet is an exception as he has markings on his face that make him look panda-like.
85** Subverted with Arthur's pet dog, Pal, who is solid colored.
86* The FunnyAnimal bears in ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' are all light brown furred, but the normal animals tend to have various markings.
87* The FunnyAnimal pigs in ''WesternAnimation/{{Olivia}}'' are pink or have various human-like skintones, but no head of hair, but the normal animals (except Edwin the black furred pet cat of Olivia) tend to have various markings.
88* Gadget Hackwrench of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' is peach-colored and has no real hints of fur on her body at all, whereas WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale and Monterey Jack have markings on their fur. But she does have a full head of strawberry-blond EightiesHair.
89* At the end of one episode of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', the eponymous wallaby ends up getting a sunburn after an afternoon at the beach, which makes it bizarre [[FridgeLogic considering the fact that he's from Australia]].
90* ''Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'':
91** In the [[WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow first]] [[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks two]] cartoons, the Chipmunks and the Chipettes are both peach colored, but the Chipettes look like they just have peach colored skin and [[FurryFemaleMane have human-like head hair]]. The Chipmunks still look like they have fur, however. Contrast that to [[Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks the two live action movies]] where they are [[AnthropomorphicShift less anthropomorphic]] and have fur and markings more like that of normal chipmunks.
92** ''WesternAnimation/ALVINNNAndTheChipmunks'' mixes the classic designs with the movie's designs. The chipmunks look even more anthropomorphic than before, but they aren't human sized, they have tails, and they have stripe markings on their faces that make it more obvious that they have light colored fur.
93* I ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' could be considered an inversion, since the ''human'' characters have skin that is, in many cases, the same color as their hair and treated interchangeably. In particular Bart, Lisa, and Maggie's hair are all colored like their skin.
94* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
95** The PeripheryDemographic had this as one of their biggest questions. The ponies do indeed have manes, though they're treated as human hair, but it's generally unmentioned as to whether they have purple, blue, orange, etc. body hair/fur or they have no body hair and it's actually their skin. It gets a little weirder when talking about one of the most well-known elements of the show: the "cutie mark", a symbol of some sort that appears on a pony's hindquarters when they discover their greatest talent or purpose in life. Whether it's just a pattern of differently-colored fur or the mark appears on the pony's skin remained unclear for some time. It was, however, addressed in the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E23PonyvilleConfidential Ponyville Confidential]]", after Snips and Snails get themselves stuck together with bubble gum. Later we see their fur was shaven off in places to get them apart, and indeed, the part with their cutie marks was shaven off as well.
96** Cheese Sandwich is pretty much Music/WeirdAlYankovic in pony form, and as such they gave him peach-colored fur and curly brown hair to better match his actor (since there's only [[LimitedAnimation so much one can do]] to make a ''My Little Pony'' character into an [[InkSuitActor Ink Suit]]).
97** Similarly, Sunset Shimmer and Flash Sentry, who were both created for ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls Equestria Girls]]'' and get far more screen time as humans than ponies, have peach colored skin/coats.
98** Saffron and Coriander in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E13SpiceUpYourLife Spice Up Your Life]]" are Indian inspired ponies. They have orange and brownish fur respectively, and dark colored manes.
99** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E8HardToSayAnything Hard to Say Anything]]" has Feather Bangs as a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Music/JustinBieber. He has a peach coloured pelt.
100** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'' features a pony played by Music/{{Sia}} who [[InkSuitActor looks exactly like Sia]] and has a light-coloured pelt.
101* All of the [[CatFolk Thunderians]] from ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats 2011}}'' have this trait. The ContinuityReboot takes more care to show "tufts" of fur at places like shoulders and elbows, and occasionally shows facial or bodily fur bristling with anger or surprise, though ThroughAFaceFullOfFur still occurs.
102* Inverted with the Whos in the animated ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''; their hair is the same color as their skin.
103* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig''. Two of the main pony characters clearly have spots while the zebras stripes are clearly displayed on their faces.
104* In the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short "Little Quacker", Quacker's dad Henry has a ''tattoo'' on his upper arm/wing.
105* Brandy from ''WesternAnimation/BrandyAndMrWhiskers'' got a tan in at least one episode despite being a dog.
106* ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBeaks'' applies lotion to himself as if he doesn't have feathers. He has a tuft on his head that makes it clear he doesn't have blue skin.
107* While the characters in ''Literature/MaxAndRuby'' clearly have fur, most characters are solid toned. At least one character has been shown to have patches but almost everyone else has either completely white or brown fur.
108* Most campers in ''WesternAnimation/SummerCampIsland'' have facial fur that is peach or otherwise light-toned. Alice is the exception and Pepper has black fur around his eyes (because he's a panda). Despite their fur looking like skin, it's been shown to be fur (such as when the elephant character Oscar's fur became messy).
109* On ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'', characters like Daniel Tiger and his family apply sunscreen on hot, sunny days despite being covered in fur, which would [[ImpliedTrope imply]] that their fur is skin.
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