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Author: SciFiMs

May 7th 2014 at 4:27:50 AM

Here's a suggestion for the first paragraph (note this incorporates what's now the sixth paragraph of the trope description):
 
"This is about the various personality, wealth, gender, ethnic, and moral and societal standing stereotypes connected to the fur, feather, scale, or skin color or colors--white, black, or otherwise--of animals. Note this trope covers natural colors, as well as somewhat exaggerated colors (e.g., the bright yellow body and orange legs of LooneyTunes' Tweety Bird), but is different from TypicalCartoonAnimalColors, which is the unrealistic stock coloring of a given species of animal in a cartoon or other fictional work (i.e., pink pigs, yellow-beaked crows and ravens)."

For me, it immediately answers some basic questions about this trope. Of course, if you have a better way to convey these ideas early on, feel free to further revise.

Also, right before the examples, the sentence "Not to be confused with Typical Cartoon Animal Colors" is redundant. And in your examples, Ravens and Crows (black feathers) has been split into several tropes, so one of those, e.g., CreepyCrows, would be a better trope to mention there.

Finally, you may find this article interesting: http://www.catster.com/the-scoop/cats-judged-by-coat-color