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* One shot in ''Anime/{{Aggretsuko}}'' shows Retsuko's light-brown fur-covered hand red and blistered from trying to play a guitar.

* Many characters from the ''VideoGame/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.

One variant is to have a character (usually a BeastMan) have fur, feathers, or scales that look like or practically is 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]].

[[caption-width-right:337:L - R, top to bottom: [[Anime/BNABrandNewAnimal Michiru Kagemori]], [[WesternAnimation/FlushedAway Roddy]], [[WesternAnimation/SummerCampIsland Hedgehog]] and [[VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}} Chocolat Gelato]].]]

* The [[BeastMan Caninu and Felineko]] of ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}'' 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).

* One shot in ''Anime/Aggretsuko'' shows Retsuko's light-brown fur-covered hand red and blistered from trying to play a guitar.

Subtrope of FunnyAnimalAnatomy. Related to ThroughAFaceFullOfFur, FurryBaldness, and TuftOfHeadFur.

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[[caption-width-right:350:L - R, top to bottom: [[Anime/BNABrandNewAnimal Michiru Kagemori]], [[WesternAnimation/FlushedAway Roddy]], [[WesternAnimation/SummerCampIsland Hedgehog]] and [[VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}} Chocolat Gelato]].]]

Another 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 a sometimes used when designing {{Funny Animal}}s in juxtaposition with [[NearlyNormalAnimal "normal" animals]].

Yet 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 a human skin tone.

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