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->''That night, while [Sebastian] sat behind the Martinis' garage, the hair on his paws fell away. He was not alarmed. He simply brushed away the remaining strands, stretched out the toes into fingers, and rubbed the palms together.''
-->-- ''Literature/WarWithNoName'', ''Mort(e)''

A common design choice for {{Funny Animal}}s and other characters on the SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism is giving them human-like hands (in spite of their [[FeatherFingers apparent lack of proper wrists]]). However, their feet (and, perhaps, other parts of their body) often remain unchanged, resembling the feet, fins, flippers and hooves of their original species.

Quite frequently the hands will be four fingered (three fingers and a thumb). This is due both to cartoon drawing conventions of FourFingeredHands and the fact that cats and dogs have a "dewclaw" as their fifth digit, making their forepaws look superficially like they only have four digits.

Compare FeatherFingers, where animals retain their original anatomy but can use their forelimbs as hands anyway. Related to HumanlikeFootAnatomy.

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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/{{Beastars}}'': All of the anthropomorphic characters in this manga are shown to have human-like hands, albeit covered with fur (and in the case of carnivorous animals, with claws). Herbivorous ungulates, such as Louis the deer, also have ''fingernails'' in place of hooves.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': The [[AsianFoxSpirit Nine-Tailed Fox]] is an AnimalisticAbomination slightly more human in anatomy than a real fox, including unusually long fingers and toes. This is heavily downplayed [[HeelFaceTurn until Naruto befriends it]], after which it is more often shown [[HandSeals doing things with its hands]] and sitting in humanlike positions.
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[[folder:Asian Animation]]
* In ''Animation/GGBond'', the anthropomorphic pigs have four- or five-fingered hands (depending on the season) that look exactly like human hands.
* Season 7 of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'' features races of FunnyAnimal dog and cat aliens who are in [[AnimalJingoism quite a rivalry]] with each other. Both races have FourFingeredHands like the HumanAliens instead of paws.
* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'', the goats and wolves all have FourFingeredHands that look more like human hands than the goat hooves and wolf paws that would be on the real versions of the animals. Their feet more closely resemble the normal hooves and paws, however.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* The characters of ''ComicBook/TheAutumnlandsToothAndClaw'' have human-like hands though the number of fingers varies by species. Most mammals and reptiles have five fingers, ungulates tend to have four, and avians have three.
* WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck and the rest of the more FunnyAnimal bodied ducks in the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse have human-like arms and hands, but webbed feet.
* ComicBook/HowardTheDuck has WhiteGloves on human-like hands, but has webbed feet.
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* Largely averted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}''. Aside from Friend Owl, who switches from regular wings to FeatherFingers when needed, the only characters to have human-like hands are Flower and his girlfriend, and that is mostly based on a real skunk's anatomy.
* For ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'', they would have needed to come up with some pretty ingenious ways for all the chickens to use their various tools if they all had actual wings instead of arms.
%% * The fish in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' all have normal looking fins that are somehow able to ''grip'' things.
* {{Downplayed}} with the lions in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'', who have mostly realistic cat paws, but their dew claws are larger than in real life so that they can occasionally use it as a thumb. Zazu the bird has FeatherFingers, and Timon the meerkat has human-like fingers rather than claws. Justified with Rafiki, as he is a primate which has human-like hands to begin with.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* The Chipmunks and the Chippettes in the live action ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' films have human-like hands but are otherwise very much like chipmunks.
* The ''Indominus rex'' in ''Film/JurassicWorld'' is a [[MixAndMatchCritters genetically engineered hybrid theropod]] with three fingers and one thumb on each hand.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Pretty common in ''{{Literature/Dinoverse}}''. In the first set the UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex and Leptoceratops characters have trouble using their hands, which are two-fingered and on short arms, and incorporate hooves, respectively, but the Quetzalcoatlus uses the little clawed fingers on her wings with ease. However, in subsequent adventures anything not quadrupedal has humanlike ability to pick up and manipulate objects, even when they're small-armed megapredators like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrocanthosaurus Acrocanthosaurus]] or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcharodontosaurus Carcharodontosaurus.]]
* An interesting variation in the ''Literature/SholanAlliance'' series. The Sholans are a felinoid race with retractable fingers, enabling them to alternately run on all fours or grip things with human-like hands.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* In a non-cartoon example, the darklord Markov from ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' is cursed to always have the body of a beast and the head of a man, but can invoke this trope on himself at will.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Pathologic}}'': The rat prophets have human fingers and feet.
%% * All the anthropomorphic animals in ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' are this way.
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' characters have a strange variation of this; their hands are human-like regardless of species, but their feet are very... not human, but not exactly those of their derived species, either. Their feet are just...ovals. No features, no toes, nothing. They look like ovaloids flattened on the sole part. [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal Most of the characters wear shoes anyway]], so you rarely have to behold their [[http://www.sonicstadium.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/sonic_chronicles_conceptart_m2eLD.jpg flipper]] [[http://media.sonicscanf.org/gallery/amy-rose/16.png feet.]] This has somewhat changed in ''VideoGame/SonicForces'', where if the avatar character is wearing sandals, he/she is shown with only one toe on each foot.
* Every character in ''Franchise/StarFox.'' Except for Falco, who has FeatherFingers.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Robber Eel has a tailfin like a weird hand, which he uses to hold his loot sack.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'': Florence the [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted wolf]] has humanlike hands and wolflike feet, giving her fine motor control and the ability to walk both upright and on all fours. This is revealed to have taken some very complex genetic manipulation, drawing on everything from bears to hero shrews, to map a wolf to a humanoid body shape.
* The owl people in ''Webcomic/RealmOfOwls'' have a bone structure resembling a human hand rather than their [[FeatherFingers wing feathers acting like fingers]].
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Played with to disturbing effect on an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', where a deer is attacking the citizens of Candy Kingdom. During the climax the deer stands up on its hind legs and, to everyone's shock, ''takes off its front hooves'', revealing human fingers beneath.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': Played with. All of the humans in the show have normal, five-fingered hands. The frogs/toads/newts also have human-like hands, but with only four fingers.
* Any animal character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' except Runt and Buttons (two "non-anthro" dogs), Pharfignewton (a "non-anthro" horse) and Minerva Mink (mink with somewhat human-like feet). The Goodfeathers, Godpigeon, Girlfeathers, and Chicken Boo have FeatherFingers instead.
* Played straight with other animals like rhinos and hippos in ''WesternAnimation/{{Babar}}'', who have human-like hands. Elephants have normal elephant forefeet, even when bipedal, so they either use their trunks or have [[FeatherFingers phalange-fingers]] instead.
* All the animal humanoids in ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' have humanlike arms, as well as [[HumanlikeFootAnatomy humanlike feet]]. This makes it a bit confusing that [=BoJack=] and other horse characters have horseshoe designs in their living spaces.
* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'' has the FourFingeredHands variety.
* Everyone on ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' have FourFingeredHands which resemble those of humans, though Quack Quack and Olaf's arms are flat like wings.
* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes loves this trope:
** WesternAnimation/BugsBunny
** WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck
** Parodied in the Looney Tunes short "WesternAnimation/WhatMakesDaffyDuck" where a fox has human like hands. At one point it's revealed they're gloves when they fly off revealing fox paws underneath.
** WesternAnimation/PorkyPig, though his hooves can look more shoe-like depending on the design.
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Averted with WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse ad especially WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} and any {{Dogface}} that shows up because the former two are {{Funny Animal}}s with feet shaped like human feet and the latter two have that along with a completely humanoid body shape.
** WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit and Ortensia the cat have humanlike hands and feet shaped like blocks that are flat on the soles in ''VideoGame/EpicMickey''. In early cartoons, Oswald was drawn either with oval feet or feet shaped roughly like that of his species.
** In the really early Mickey Mouse cartoons, Mickey was drawn with either oval feet or block-shaped feet.
* Massimo from ''WesternAnimation/ProducingParker'' uses his paws like human hands when he does things like cook, etc.
* The Pigs in ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'' have perfectly normal hands even though their feet are normal pig hooves.
** Lisa Raccoon also has human-like hands instead of black paws like the other raccoon characters have.
* Zigzagged with ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', as their hands would look more realistic sometimes than others. In "Stimpy's Fan Club" for example, Ren's hands look creepy in certain scenes because they look like photo-realistic human hands...yet remain four-fingered.
* Exaggerated with [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 Disney’s]] [[WesternAnimation/TaleSpin Baloo]] in ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'''s "The Baloo Identity?" His hands look completely like five fingered human hands the same color as his body.
* Starting from the second series, ''[[WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep Shaun The Sheep's]]'' front hooves look decidedly more handlike in those scenes where he's standing on his hind legs.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'': The Turtles all have opposable fingers, but they only have three fingers on each hand.
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