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[[caption-width-right:350: The animal kingdom: living proof that TheWorldIsJustAwesome.]]

You know, animals! Those living, moving, eating, breathing, biting, clawing, stinging things that are clearly not human (and are often darn proud of it).

These are tropes that somehow relate to animals, to characters who are animals and to their dealings with humans.

'''Only list tropes on this index if they do not already have an appropriate sub-index.'''

Also note that some tropes may qualify for more than one sub-index.

For tropes about the [[Franchise/TheMuppets muppet]] named Animal, see [[Characters/TheMuppetShow here]] (or, if you can bear an all-capital SelfDemonstratingArticle, then [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Animal}} here]]).

Compare and contrast PlantTropes.
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+ AnimalAnthropomorphismTropes: Tropes about all kinds of sapient animal characters who act (or even look) like humans.
++ BeastMan: Types of humanoid species with features of various animals.
++ FunnyAnimalTropes: Tropes about {{Funny Animal}}s and {{Civilized Animal}}s.
+++ FunnyAnimalAnatomy: Tropes about the anatomical structure of these humanoid animals.
++ SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism: The varieties of anthropomorphic animal characters, ranging from more humanlike to more animalistic.
++ WerebeastTropes: [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Werebeasts]] (or therianthropes) are various {{shapeshifting}} creatures who all have the (in)voluntary ability to change between human and animal forms.
+ AnimalMotifs: {{Motifs}} and symbolism involving animals.
+ AnimalStereotypes: {{Stereotype}}s that are often associated with particular animals in media.
++ AnimalJingoism: Classic pairs of animals that are often depicted as natural enemies.
++ AnimalOccupationStereotypes: Animals typically associated with certain jobs.
++ NationalAnimalStereotypes: When animal stereotypes are combined with NationalStereotypes of various countries/regions or human ethnicities/nationalities.
++ PleasantAnimalsIndex: Stereotypes of animals considered to be cute, friendly, or heroic.
++ ScaryAnimalsIndex: Stereotypes of animals that are often treated as being AlwaysChaoticEvil.
+ BigTropeHunting: Tropes about (animal or human) predators hunting down their prey to capture, kill, and/or eat them.
++ MeatOfTheIndex: Tropes about animals or humans consuming the flesh of other (dead) animals for food.
+ AnEggcellentIndex: Tropes about all kinds of animal eggs, for the purpose of reproduction (or consumption as food).
+ PetAndAnimalCompanionTropes: Tamed or domesticated animals that humans keep around for close company.
++ AttackAnimal: Animals trained to fight and kill on command.
++ LoyalAnimalCompanion: A pet that always stays close to their human friends.
+ TailOfTheIndex: Tropes about tails, an appendage that many animals have.
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[[folder: Specific animals ]]

+ AquaticAnimalTropes: Tropes for all kinds of water-dwelling animals (which has some considerable overlap with multiple different categories below).
++ TheseTropesAreFishy: Tropes about all sorts of cold-blooded, water-breathing vertebrates (including bony fish and cartilaginous fish).
+ AvianTropes: Tropes about birds, warm-blooded vertebrates with beaks, feathers, and wings.
++ CorvidTropes: Tropes about birds in the Corvidae family (crows, ravens, magpies, etc).
++ ThisIndexQuacks: Tropes about waterfowl birds (ducks, geese, swans, etc).
+ InvertebrateIndex: Tropes for all the (literally) spineless animals lacking vertebrae (backbones); including arthropods, mollusks, worms, etc.
++ ArachnidTropes: Tropes about spiders, scorpions, and other related eight-legged arthropods.
++ InsectIndex: Tropes about all six-legged arthropods with pairs of antennae and compound eyes.
++ MolluskTropes: Tropes about mollusks, including gastropods (snails and slugs) and bivalves (clams and oysters).
+++ CephalopodIndex: Tropes about squids, octopi, and other tentacled marine mollusks.
+ MammalTropes: Tropes about mammals, warm-blooded vertebrates with fur/hair that were raised on their mother's milk.
++ AndOnThatIndexHeHadSomePigs: Tropes about hogs and swine, both wild and domestic.
++ BearTropes: Tropes about all those big mammals in the Ursidae family.
++ BunnyTropes: Tropes about hares and rabbits of the Leporidae family.
++ DolphinsDolphinsEverywhere: Tropes about marine mammals called cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises).
++ ElephantTropes: Tropes about elephants and mammoths, distinguished by their huge size and long prehensile snouts.
++ EquineAndEquestrianTropes: Tropes about horses, donkeys, mules, etc.
++ PrimateIndex: Tropes about apes, monkeys, and lemurs.
+++ HumansAreIndexed: Tropes about these weird, upright-walking apes, the only animal in the world that's known to read and edit Website/TVTropes pages.
++ RodentTropes: Tropes about mice, rats, squirrels, and other related small mammals with long incisor teeth.
++ SealTropes: Tropes about marine mammals called pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, and walruses).
++ ThisIndexBarks: Tropes about all mammals in the Canidae (dog) family.
+++ AFoxyIndex: Tropes about foxes, canids that are mostly in the Vulpini tribe.
+++ WolfTropes: Tropes about (grey) wolves, the wild relatives of domestic dogs.
++ ThisIndexIsHavingACowMan: Tropes about cattle, both wild and domestic.
++ ThisIndexMeows: Tropes about all mammals in the Felidae (cat) family.
++ TropesThatGoBaaa: Tropes about goats and sheep.
+ ReptileAndAmphibianTropes: Tropes about all sorts of cold-blooded, air-breathing vertebrates (from the Reptilia and Amphibia classes).
++ IndexInAHalfShell: Tropes about turtles and tortoises, reptiles known for their armored shells.
++ SnakeAndSerpentTropes: Tropes about all those elongated, limbless reptiles.
+ TropesaurusIndex: Tropes about various extinct and prehistoric animals, including (but not limited to) the dinosaurs.
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* AbsentAnimalCompanion: Pets tend to show up in one episode of an episodic series, and disappear forever by the next.
* AccidentallyCorrectZoology: A fictional species, or trait of an existing animal, is made up, only for it to turn out to exist in real life.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: An adaptation changes a character's species.
* AdjectiveAnimalAlehouse: A bar called "The ''[Adjective] [Animal]''".
* AdoringThePests: Someone welcomes vermin animals into their house.
* AlienAnimals: Extraterrestrial wildlife.
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: All animals behave the same way as canines.
* AllAnimalsAreDomesticated: Wild animals can all be easily tamed into docile pets.
* AllFlyersAreBirds: All flying animals behave the same way as avians.
* AlternateAnimalAffection: Animals have their own way of showing affection analogous to kissing.
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Animals with bizarre, unrealistic colors.
* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: An animal that's unrealistically smart and may be able to understand language, but isn't anthropomorphic and can't talk.
* AnachronisticAnimal: An animal shows up in a [[AnachronismStew time period when it didn't even exist yet in real life]].
* AngryAnimalisticGrowl: The growl of an animal means they're completely ticked off.
* AnimalAssassin: A deadly animal is used as a murder weapon.
* AnimalAthleteLoophole: An underdog sports team brings a pet in to play and wins the game.
* AnimalBattleAura: An animal motif appears around or behind a martial artist in battle.
* AnimalChickMagnet: Women who like animals want to date men who share a similar interest in pets.
* AnimalDisguise: A human disguised as an animal.
* AnimalEspionage: Animals are used as spies.
* AnimalEyes: A human with animal-like eyes.
* AnimalGenderBender: An animal's gender isn't consistent with their appearance because they look closer to a specimen of the opposite gender.
* AnimalGoesToSchool: An animal not normally seen in a school setting is in one.
* AnimalIsTheNewMan: Animals have replaced humans as Earth's dominant species and have become sapient.
* AnimalLover: A person who is very fond of animals.
** FriendToAllLivingThings: Someone who loves all animals and is loved by them.
*** FriendToBugs: Someone who even likes insects and other creatures that aren't considered to be cute by most people.
** NaiveAnimalLover: A foolish human who wrongly believes that [[AllAnimalsAreDomesticated wild animals are all friendly and harmless]].
* AnimalMecha: A {{Mecha}} built in the shape of an animal.
* AnimalMetaphor: When an animal is used for symbolism.
* AnimalNamingConventions: Animals don't have human names, or if they do, they have another, "real" name separate from what the humans named them.
* AnimalNemesis: A human who sees an animal as their nemesis.
* AnimalReactionShot: A ReactionShot from an animal.
* AnimalSpeciesAccent: A talking animal who speaks with an accent reminiscent of their species.
* AnimalStampede: A destructive, running group of scared animals.
* AnimalSuperheroes: Anthropomorphic animals who fight crime.
* AnimalSweetOnObject: An animal gets the hots for an inanimate object, usually mistaking it for an animal of the same species.
* AnimalTesting: Animals are used as test subjects in laboratory experiments, because it's far more legal than [[TestedOnHumans doing the same to humans]].
** LabPet: An animal test subject is treated as a pet by the scientist studying them.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: A {{superhero}} or {{supervillain}} who styles their name, costume, or abilities after an animal.
* AnimalWrongsGroup: A group of animal rights activists who are willing to hurt and kill other human beings if it will help their goal to prevent animals from being harmed or killed.
* AnimalisticAbomination: An EldritchAbomination which looks or acts like a much more monstrous version of an ordinary animal.
* AnimalsHateHim: Animals react negatively to a particular individual.
** EvilDetectingDog: An animal is able to sense the presence of evil people, dangerous situations, and/or supernatural phenomena.
* AnimalsLackAttributes: Animals are depicted without genitalia.
* AnimalsNotToScale: An animal isn't the same size as it would be in real life.
* AnimalsRespectNature: Animals have a special respect for nature and the cycle of life.
* AnimalsSeeInMonochrome: Animals, especially dogs and to a lesser extent cats, see in black-and-white.
* {{Animorphism}}: When a person [[{{Shapeshifting}} (in)voluntarily transforms into]] a non-human animal.
** AttractiveBentSpecies: A human transformed into an animal is attractive to other animals of that same species (or vice versa).
** OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Instead of a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]], someone transforms into a different kind of were-animal.
* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Humans treat their pets in ways that would be very dangerous in real life.
* ArtisticLicenseMarineBiology: Sea life portrayed inaccurately in fiction for the purposes of the story.
* AscendedToCarnivorism: An herbivorous animal decides to try out meat and move up to another level in the food chain.
* AssInALionSkin: An animal pretending to be another of a different species.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: When a villain decides to (literally) KickTheDog by needlessly harming and mistreating animals, usually for sadistic reasons.
** BeastlyBloodsports: Animals are forced to [[GladiatorGames fight to the death for the entertainment of callous humans]].
** BlackComedyAnimalCruelty: When the abuse of animals is played for [[BlackComedy dark humor]].
** CruellaToAnimals: It's shown how vile a person is by establishing that they're willing to kill animals for their meat or hide, especially EndangeredSpecies.
*** FurAndLoathing: Wearing animal skins signifies a character as a villain.
** HuntingIsEvil: People who hunt wild animals (especially for reasons besides acquiring their meat for food) are often portrayed as bad guys.
*** EgomaniacHunter: An arrogant game hunter who gets too much enjoyment from killing animals for sport.
*** EvilPoacher: A hunter who is willing to illegally kill or capture endangered wildlife for money.
** MicrowaveTheDog: Killing a pet by putting it into a microwave.
* BatScare: Characters are exploring an environment void of other people but where animals are present, then a group of flying animals fly out, scaring them.
* BeastFable: Using animals to tell a story with a [[AnAesop moral]].
* BeastOfTheApocalypse: An animal who tries to bring out an apocalypse.
* BestialityIsDepraved: Gags involving humans having sex with animals.
* BilingualAnimal: An animal that both speaks a human language and its animal language.
* ButtBiter: An animal bites someone on their behind.
* CallASmeerpARabbit: Calling an unusual creature the name of a mundane animal.
* CaninesPrimaryFelinesSecondary: A work features both cats and dogs, and the cats play second fiddle to the dogs in some way.
* CarnivoreConfusion: The dietary concerns of sapient/anthropomorphic animals become a lot more morally complicated when it comes to eating meat.
* CartoonCreature: An animal of indeterminate species.
* CatDogDichotomy: Cats and dogs are depicted as being each other's polar opposites.
* ChasingAButterfly: A kid or similarly innocent character chases a small animal out of curiosity.
* ChildrenInTow: An animal being followed by its offspring.
* CockroachesWillRuleTheEarth: A BadFuture, in which humans are extinct and a species evolved from a small animal has taken our place.
* ColdBloodedWhatever: A vertebrate creature which has mixed traits of reptiles, amphibians, and fish.
* ConeOfShame: Dogs wearing cones around their necks to keep them from picking at stitches from surgery.
* ConvenientDecoyCat: A character being chased is about to be caught due to making a noise, but then a small animal shows up and the chaser mistakenly thinks the animal made the sound.
* CreepyHairlessAnimal: Bald mammals look freaky.
* CryingCritters: Non-anthropomorphic animals cry.
* CubCuesProtectiveParent: If you foolishly approach a young animal, their angry parent will attack you for getting too close to their child.
* CuteButCacophonic: A small animal with a loud cry.
* CuteClumsyCreature: Cute animal + Place full of fragile objects = Chaos!
* DeadAnimalWarning: Sending someone an animal's corpse as a warning.
* DeathbringerTheAdorable: A cute, harmless animal with a deceptively scary name.
* DeceptivelyCuteCritter: An animal pretends to be sweet and innocent to manipulate human characters.
* DelusionsOfDoghood: A human believes they are an animal.
* DetectiveAnimal: An animal who solves crimes and mysteries.
* DiligentDraftAnimal: Draft animals (donkeys, horses, mules, and oxen) are portrayed as diligent and hardworking.
* DireBeast: A larger version of an existing animal.
* DisneyCreaturesOfTheFarce: A scene that parodies the whole "animals love Disney princesses" thing.
* DisneyDogFight: Two people want custody of a pet, so they let the pet decide.
* DiurnalNocturnalAnimal: A nocturnal animal is somehow active during the daytime.
* DogsHateSquirrels: Dogs depicted as attacking squirrels.
* ADogNamedCat: An animal is named after something of a different species.
* ADogNamedDog: An individual animal's name is the same as its species.
* ADogNamedPerro: An individual animal is named after the name of its species in a different language than the one primarily used in the work it's in.
* DubSpeciesChange: A translation changes a character's species.
* EarsAsHair: Anthropomorphic animals style their ears like hair.
* EarNotch: When an animal has a notch out of their ear, that's a sign that they've been through bad stuff and/or are tough or evil.
* EasternZodiac: Zodiacs from East Asian countries that tie animals into personality types.
* EggLayingMale: Males of oviparous species are capable of laying eggs in fiction.
* ElephantGraveyard: A place where very large animals (usually elephants, hence the name) go to die.
* EmergencyFoodSupplyAnimal: When there's an emergency, a domesticated animal gets eaten.
* EndangeredPest: An endangered species causes somebody a significant problem that's difficult to deal with because the organism is endangered.
* EndangeredSpecies: An (animal) species that is almost extinct due to natural or artificial causes.
* EnemyToAllLivingThings: Someone who animals are scared of, or who causes living things to die.
* EscapedAnimalRampage: An animal held in captivity by humans somehow escapes and causes trouble.
* EvenTheDogIsAshamed: Everybody is mad at somebody, even an animal.
* EvenTheRatsWontTouchIt: When a food is so gross or tough that even vermin aren't interested in it.
* ExitPursuedByABear: The villain ends up chased by an animal that intends to harm them.
* ExplosiveBreeder: An animal that is capable of giving birth to numerous offspring at once.
* ExpressiveEars: A character uses their ears to express emotion.
* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Either a made-up species that behaves like a certain real species, or an extant species that behaves like another, more familiar species.
* FantasticMedicinalBodilyProduct: A creature has a bodily product, such as blood, spittle, etc. that has healing properties.
* FantasticVermin: Magical, alien, or otherwise otherworldly everyday pests.
* FedToTheBeast: Throwing a captive person to a hungry animal so they can be EatenAlive.
* FluffyDryCat: When an animal is soaked, then dried, it looks fluffier than usual.
* FluffyNotFat: An animal appears to be large, but most of its "bulk" is actually fur, hair, feathers, etc.
* FluffyTheTerrible: A dangerous animal with a deceptively cute pet name.
* FollowTheWhiteRabbit: Characters chase an animal into a strange place.
* FoodAndAnimalAttraction: A character has food on their person that attracts an animal.
* ForebodingFleeingFlock: A group of animals running away spells danger.
* FormerlySapientSpecies: Animals that were once people.
* FreeRangePets: Someone allows their pets to roam around wherever they please.
* FromStrayToPet: A feral animal living in the wild gets taken into a human home.
* FurIsClothing: An animal's fur is treated like clothing, with shaved animals treated as if they were naked.
* FurIsSkin: An animal's fur is conflated with its skin.
* GenderEqualsBreed: Two animals have children whose genders are determined by which parent they look like.
* GhostlyAnimals: The undead spirits of nonhuman animals.
* GiantAnimalWorship: A primitive tribe worships a large animal.
* GiantFlyer: A huge, flying creature.
* GoodTamingEvilTaming: Heroes tame animals with affection, while villains tame them in an abusive way.
* HeliCritter: Animals who can use parts of their bodies as propellers.
* HerbivoresAreFriendly: Plant-eating animals are harmless and docile.
* HibernationMigrationSituation: Drama arises when an animal character needs to hibernate or migrate after the seasons change.
* HilarityInZoos: Going to the zoo, played for comedy.
* HypnosisProofDogs: Mind control only affects humans, not animals.
* IAmNotWeasel: An animal is mistaken for a species it plainly isn't.
* {{Imprinting}}: Young animals assume the first living thing they see is their parent.
* IncompetentGuardAnimal: An animal is assigned to guard something but bungles it up.
* IncorrectAnimalNoise: An animal makes the wrong sound, and it's not played as a joke.
* InformedSpecies: When a cartoon animal looks nothing like the species they're supposed to be.
* IntellectualAnimal: An animal with human-level intelligence.
* IntelligentGerbil: An creature resembling an animal, who's anthropomorphic, but ''not'' sapient.
* InterspeciesAdoption: A young animal is raised by [[ParentalSubstitute adoptive parents]] from another species.
** RaisedByWolves: A human child who was raised by wild animals.
** RaisedInCaptivity: A member of a wild animal species who was raised in a human environment.
* InterspeciesFriendship: Two animals of different species befriend each other.
** ACatInAGangOfDogs: A cat who socializes with a group of dogs.
** PredatorPreyFriendship: A friendship between two different animals who are supposedly natural enemies.
* InterspeciesRomance: Two animals of different species fall in love with each other.
** HotSkittyOnWailordAction: Romance between a larger animal and a smaller animal of both vastly different sizes and species.
* IntroducedSpeciesCalamity: A new invasive species is introduced to an area and ends up damaging the local ecosystem.
* KillerRabbit: A small, cute animal that is actually quite deadly.
* KindlyVet: A vet who's a NiceGuy or gal.
* LastOnesPloy: An animal that’s part of an endangered species uses their status to receive legal protection.
* LickedByTheDog: An animal or baby shows affection towards an intimidating character.
* ALizardNamedLiz: A non-human creature has a name that references their species.
* MakeTheDogTestify: Animals have to appear in a courtroom trial.
* MatingSeasonMayhem: An animal going into heat is a plot point.
* MechanicalAnimals: Robots that resemble or are based on animals.
* MenagerieOfMisery: A collection of animals kept in inadequate accommodations.
* MessyMaleFancyFemale: Male animals look scruffy while females look neat.
* MightyRoar: Large animals always roar loudly.
* UsefulNotes/MilitaryAnimals: Animals that are trained and used by humans for warfare.
* MimicSpecies: A species of animal whose evolutionary history has it mimic another species.
* MiracleGroMonster: A character has a strange pet that, if one particular thing happens to them, they will grow and grow.
* MisplacedWildlife: Animals appear in locations where they're very unlikely to be seen in real life.
* MixAndMatchCritters: An animal that looks like a combination of two or more animals.
* MountedMook: A {{mook|s}} would ride a (usually evil) creature either for traversal or for battle.
* MultipleTailedBeast: A creature with more than one tail.
* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast: Music can make aggressive animals behave.
* MysteriousAnimalSenses: Animals with bizarre senses.
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* NatureIsNotNice: Wild animals live in a [[CrapsackWorld harsh, cruel, unforgiving world]] where every minute is spent just trying to survive.
* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: When children or animals on set do something the directors didn't want them to do.
* NiceKitty: Making BabyTalk to a dangerous animal to try to appease it.
* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: A work gives a disclaimer that despite the film depicting animals getting killed, imperiled, or abused, such depictions were simulated and no animal involved in the film was hurt for real.
* NoisyNature: Animals making sounds even when they logically should be quiet.
* TheNoseKnows: A character with an enhanced sense of smell.
* NotSoExtinct: An animal species that was believed to have died out long ago turns out to still exist.
* OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: Legendary and mythical animals that are not proven to exist in the real world. But works of fiction on the other hand...
* PaleFemalesDarkMales: Females of an animal species have lighter colors while males are darker.
* ParasitesAreEvil: Animals that live in or on other animals are depicted as evil.
* APetIntoTheWild: A domestic animal who lived with humans becomes a stray, and now has to fend for itself in the wilderness.
* PetsVersusStrays: Domestic animals and feral animals don't really agree on the merits of life with humans.
* APigNamedPorkchop: An animal is named after the meat, food, or other animal products that could come from it.
* {{Planimal}}: A hybrid creature that is both a plant and an animal.
* PortrayedByDifferentSpecies: An animal is portrayed as a different species.
* PoundsAreAnimalPrisons: Pounds are treated as being the animal equivalent of a prison.
* PredationIsNatural: Animals eating other animals is simply a fact of life that can't be avoided.
* PredatorsAreMean: Animals that eat other animals are depicted as being evil.
* PregnantReptile: A non-mammal bears live young.
* RaisingTheSteaks: [[NonhumanUndead Non-human animals turned into undead zombies]].
* RampageFromANail: A persistent injury drives an animal into a frenzy.
* RealisticSpeciesCartoonySpecies: Animals tend to look less (semi)realistic than humans in animated cartoons.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: An animal designed to be cute.
* RoadApples: Jokes about animal poop.
* SapientAllAlong: A seemingly dumb animal turns out to actually be just as smart as humans are.
* SapientPet: A domestic animal companion who has humanlike intelligence.
* SapientSteed: A mounted animal with the same intellect as the person who rides it.
* ScareTheDog: When a guard dog or similar animal is intimidated by a scary character.
* ScavengersAreScum: When the hero is a carnivore, the villain will often be a scavenger.
* ShyShelledAnimal: A shy animal with a shell.
* SidekickCreatureNuisance: A bumbling animal sidekick.
* SignatureRoar: A monster or animal has a specific noise in lieu of a CharacterCatchphrase.
* SillyAnimalSound: Animals making the wrong sounds, played for comedy.
* SmallTaxonomyPools: Fiction only shows a few familiar species.
* SlidingScaleOfAnimalCast: A scale of number of animals compared to humans in fiction, from no humans to no animals.
* SlidingScaleOfAnimalCommunication: A scale that ranges from no animals being able to talk to all animals being able to talk.
* SmartAnimalInconvenientInstincts: An animal that's sapient but has inconvenient instincts.
* SpeciesEqualsGender: Certain kinds of animals are more likely to be depicted as being male or female.
* SpeciesSurname: An anthropomorphic animal has their species as their family name.
* SqueamishAboutSlaughter: Animal slaughter scares, or grosses out, a character.
* SquirrelsInMyPants: Animals in somebody's clothes make the person squirm.
* StockAnimalBehavior: Animal species are stereotyped as all acting in a certain way.
* StockAnimalDiet: Different animals prefer [[TrademarkFavoriteFood specific types of food]].
* StockAnimalFacts: Common facts (or myths) often stated about specific animals.
* StockAnimalName: Humans aren't very original when it comes to naming animals.
* StrayAnimalStory: A story focusing on stray or feral animals.
* SuperPersistentPredator: A predatory animal chases the protagonists to kingdom come.
* SuspiciouslyStealthyPredator: A predatory animal that doesn't know about human technology, yet avoids it or knows how to neutralise it.
* TheSwarm: A group of very small, dangerous creatures.
* TaxonomicTermConfusion: Terms like "domain", "species", and "genus" get confused.
* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: An animal is meant to be scary, yet fails to look or act scary due to being played by a tame animal.
* ThisBearWasFramed: Somebody commits a murder and frames an animal.
* TranslatorCollar: Something that can enable animals to talk to humans.
* TreatedWorseThanThePet: Someone's status in their family is so low that even animals are treated better or valued more than they are.
* TributeToFido: An author writes a tribute to a real-life animal in their story.
* TroublemakingNewPet: A character with a pet gets a second pet, who makes a mess and the owner assumes the original pet made the mess.
* TuftOfHeadFur: An animal with a tuft of fur or feathers on their head.
* UnpleasantAnimalCounterpart: The EvilCounterpart of a "good" animal.
* UnusualAnimalAlliance: When a group of animals are in trouble, they'll have to team up despite ordinarily not being inclined to do so.
* UrineTrouble: An animal urinates on something or someone for comic effect.
* VegetarianCarnivore: A predatory animal decides to eat plants instead.
* VerberCreature: An animal's species is named after what they do.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: A vertebrate animal with more than four limbs.
* ViewerSpeciesConfusion: Viewers get an animal character's species wrong.
* WeaponizedAnimal: Using an animal with weapons mounted on it to attack.
* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Naming a pet after someone as an insult or tribute.
* WhaleEgg: An animal that gives birth to its young in real life is depicted as laying eggs.
* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: It's considered okay to kill animals that are ugly or terrifying.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: It's considered okay to mercilessly kill any creature that isn't human.
* WildlifeCommentarySpoof: Parodies of nature shows.
* WoodlandCreatures: Forest animals.
* WrestlerOfBeasts: Characters are shown as awesome by having them fight (and sometimes even win against) ferocious animals in close quarters without relying on traps or ranged weaponry.
* XenophobicHerbivore: Prey animals are not fond of their natural predators for obvious reasons.
* YetAnotherBabyPanda: Animal videos on the news.
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