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* The furry writer's podcast [[http://fangsandfonts.com/ "Fangs and Fonts"]] refers to this type of fiction as "zipperback", with the implication that the characters might as well be humans in fursuits.

* Zig-zagged with ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo. On the one hand, no one's species is ever mentioned (Usagi is never described as a rabbit, just a "long eared samurai") and "human" is even said a few times. On the other, non-anthropomorphic animals are rarely seen beyond horses, birds, fish and tokage lizards. Leans more toward [[AvertedTrope aversion]], though--notably, the [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles TMNT]] crossover storyline "Shades of Green" ''does'' mention the species of everyone but Usagi (an old rat[[note]]not Splinter, just a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute[[/note]], four ''kamé'' (turtle) ninja, and a rhino, Gen). Mikey also explicitly notes the world to be an alternate feudal Japan with anthropomorphic animals. Even besides that, quite a few aspects of the comic--such as the {{Ninja}} clans being named after their species, the Komori (bat) ninja being able to fly like actual bats, and [[spoiler:[[GreaterScopeVillain Hikiji]] being [[TokenHuman the only actual human in the setting]]]]--don't make sense if you assume everyone is supposed to actually be human. It's more likely that "human" is simply how anthropomorphic animals are referred to in this verse.

* ''VideoGame/NightInTheWoods'': Unclear. One of Mae's speeches reveals that she sees the world as just 'shapes', heavily implying that the game's simplistic art style may be reflecting this. If so, that leaves the actual species of the characters in question; Nobody really comments on anybody's species throughout the game, but a few subtle [[FurryReminder Furry Reminders]] exist (Mae complains about a ball of yarn left on a bulletin board, and ocassionally uses her claws as tools). Germ also complains that 'animals are the worst', and the term 'human' is used once or twice.

* ''VideoGame/NightInTheWoods'': Unclear. One of Mae's speeches reveals that she sees the world as just 'shapes', heavily implying that the game's simplistic art style may be reflecting this. If so, that leaves the actual species of the characters in question; Nobody really comments on anybody's species throughout the game, but a few subtle [[FurryReminder Furry Reminders]] exist (Mae complains about a ball of yarn left on a bulletin board, and ocassionally uses her claws as tools).

* ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics generally do depict their characters as actual animals (albeit functionally human, for all intents and purposes). Not so much ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'', where the characters are very explicitly human beings, depicted (often randomly) as either ducks or {{dogfaces}}. One issue has the Young Scrooge run into a herd of cows and the cattle-handlers reacts with suprise that Scrooge… speaks in a Scottish accent, just like their boss, real-life cattle-baron and fellow Scotsman, Murdo [=MacKenzie=].

* Inverted in the manga ''Nyankees''. The characters are [[StrayAnimalStory street cats]], but are drawn as human [[JapaneseDelinquents delinquents]] about 50% of the time.

* Zig-zagged with ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo. On the one hand, no one's species is ever mentioned (Usagi is never described as a rabbit, just a "long eared samurai") and "human" is even said a few times. On the other, non-anthropomorphic animals are rarely seen beyond horses, birds, fish and tokage lizards. Leans more toward [[AvertedTrope aversion]], though--notably, the [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles TMNT]] crossover storyline "Shades of Green" ''does'' mention the species of everyone but Usagi (an old rat[[note]]not Splinter, just a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute[[/note]], four ''kamé'' (turtle) ninja, and a rhino, Gen). Mikey also explicitly notes the world to be an alternate feudal Japan with anthropomorphic animals.

* Zig-zagged with ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo. On the one hand, no one's species is ever mentioned (Usagi is never described as a rabbit, just a "long eared samurai") and "human" is even said a few times. On the other, non-anthropomorphic animals are rarely seen beyond horses, birds, fish and tokage lizards.

Some works have characters who are humans, but are drawn as various other animal species. Some works have characters who are the animal species they are drawn as, but are contextually and functionally human.

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* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' fit this to a T. The characters may be literal bears and their last names may be bear-related words and puns, but they are functionally and contextually human so they wear clothes ([[BarefootCartoonAnimal albeit without shoes]]) and don't behave like bears.
* ''Literature/GaspardAndLisa'' and their family members may be dogs and not wear clothes, but are functionally and contextually human, so don't behave like dogs. They interact with other dogs the way humans interact with dogs.
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* In Series/TomorrowsPioneers, co-hosts, althought dressed as funny animals, don't show any animal traits, are human-sized, refer to themselves as humans, and even have fully human parents.

* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'':
** Mordecai is functionally completely human rather than the blue jay he is portrayed as; the show's creator even described him as "a dude in a bird's body".
** Downplayed with Rigby; he sometimes walks on four legs and him being a raccoon is sometimes relevant, but most of the time it only matters because it makes him much smaller than a human.
* WesternAnimation/HuckleberryHound. Sure he's a dog, but he really didn't do anything doglike. There were several shorts where he was pitted against a non anthropomorphic dog, in which the former is a (contextually human) mailman or a "human" fireman trying to rescue a cat from a tree... from a dog. He always reacted towards the dog like a human would, so the dog always treated him like a human.
* WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel and Morocco Mole were basically a human secret agent and his sidekick in animal suits. None of them acted like the animals they were. The main reason they were drawn as animals in the first place was the idea that having the heroes be animals would be funnier.
* Like Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole, WesternAnimation/DangerMouse and Penfold were contextually human characters who never acted like the animals they were. The main reason they were drawn as animals in the first place was the idea that having the heroes be animals would be funnier.