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With some animal characters, an AnthropomorphicShift occurs as they grow and develop. Often, they grow more anthropomorphic, but sometimes the inverse can occur. If the animal character is a PettingZooPerson to begin with, then they become more distinctly anthropomorphic as they grow and develop.

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With some animal characters, an AnthropomorphicShift occurs as they grow and develop. Often, they grow more anthropomorphic, but sometimes the inverse can occur. If the animal character is a PettingZooPerson not that humanoid to begin with, then they become more distinctly anthropomorphic as they grow and develop.



* Many PettingZooPerson animal characters in UsefulNotes/FurryFandom fanart are either {{Funny Animal}}s or less distinctly anthropomorphic PettingZooPeople as babies or prepubescent children.

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* Many PettingZooPerson animal characters in UsefulNotes/FurryFandom fanart are either {{Funny Animal}}s or less distinctly anthropomorphic PettingZooPeople obviously humanoid as babies or prepubescent children.



* Baby Lola Bunny in ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'' is a FunnyAnimal like the rest of the animal characters, but adult Lola is a PettingZooPerson.

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* Baby Lola Bunny in In ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'' is a FunnyAnimal like the rest cast are a bunch of the animal characters, {{Funny Animal}}s, but adult Lola is a PettingZooPerson.more humanoid than baby Lola.



* Baby and kid Kitty Katswell in ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' is a FunnyAnimal like most of the male animal characters, but teen and adult Kitty is a PettingZooPerson.

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* Baby and kid Kitty Katswell in ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' is a FunnyAnimal like most of the male animal characters, but teen and her adult Kitty self is a PettingZooPerson.

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* Inverted with the ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' and ''Daspletosaurus'' in ''DinosaurTrain''; adult ones stand more like their real counterparts, but juvenile ones stand more upright and have plantigrade feet.
* Baby Lola Bunny in ''BabyLooneyTunes'' is a FunnyAnimal like the rest of the animal characters, but adult Lola is a PettingZooPerson.
* A {{Flashback}} in the ''HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats'' episode, "Debutante Ball" shows Cleo and her friend Muffy as non-anthro kittens... with Cleo still sporting her full head of blonde hair.

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* Inverted with the ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' and ''Daspletosaurus'' in ''DinosaurTrain''; ''WesternAnimation/DinosaurTrain''; adult ones stand more like their real counterparts, but juvenile ones stand more upright and have plantigrade feet.
* Baby Lola Bunny in ''BabyLooneyTunes'' ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'' is a FunnyAnimal like the rest of the animal characters, but adult Lola is a PettingZooPerson.
* A {{Flashback}} in the ''HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats'' ''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats'' episode, "Debutante Ball" shows Cleo and her friend Muffy as non-anthro kittens... with Cleo still sporting her full head of blonde hair.
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* Many PettingZooPerson animal characters in FurryFandom fanart are either {{Funny Animal}}s or less distinctly anthropomorphic PettingZooPeople as babies or prepubescent children.

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* Many PettingZooPerson animal characters in FurryFandom UsefulNotes/FurryFandom fanart are either {{Funny Animal}}s or less distinctly anthropomorphic PettingZooPeople as babies or prepubescent children.
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* Baby and kid Kitty Katswell in ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' is a FunnyAnimal like most of the male animal characters, but teen and adult Kitty is a PettingZooPerson.
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* Baby Po in ''Film/KungFuPanda2'' is a NearlyNormalAnimal (or at least seems that way), unlike his adult form, which is a FunnyAnimal.

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* Baby Po in ''Film/KungFuPanda2'' ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'' is a NearlyNormalAnimal (or at least seems that way), unlike his adult form, which is a FunnyAnimal.
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With some animal characters, an AnthropomorphicShift occurs as they grow and develop. Often, they grow more anthropomorphic, but sometimes the inverse can occur.

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With some animal characters, an AnthropomorphicShift occurs as they grow and develop. Often, they grow more anthropomorphic, but sometimes the inverse can occur.
occur. If the animal character is a PettingZooPerson to begin with, then they become more distinctly anthropomorphic as they grow and develop.
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* A {{Flashback}} in the ''HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats'' episode, "Debutante Ball" shows Cleo and her friend Muffy as non-anthro kittens... with Cleo still sporting her full head of blonde hair.
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* Many PettingZooPerson animal characters in fanart are either {{Funny Animal}}s or less distinctly anthropomorphic PettingZooPeople as babies or prepubescent children.

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* Many PettingZooPerson animal characters in FurryFandom fanart are either {{Funny Animal}}s or less distinctly anthropomorphic PettingZooPeople as babies or prepubescent children.

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* Many PettingZooPerson animal characters in fanart are either {{Funny Animal}}s or less distinctly anthropomorphic PettingZooPeople as babies or prepubescent children.




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* Baby Po in ''Film/KungFuPanda2'' is a NearlyNormalAnimal (or at least seems that way), unlike his adult form, which is a FunnyAnimal.
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!!Animal Character Developmental Process Anthropomorphic Shifts

With some animal characters, an AnthropomorphicShift occurs as they grow and develop. Often, they grow more anthropomorphic, but sometimes the inverse can occur.

With female characters that become more anthropomorphic as they grow, they often develop NonMammalMammaries.

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* Inverted with the ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' and ''Daspletosaurus'' in ''DinosaurTrain''; adult ones stand more like their real counterparts, but juvenile ones stand more upright and have plantigrade feet.
* Baby Lola Bunny in ''BabyLooneyTunes'' is a FunnyAnimal like the rest of the animal characters, but adult Lola is a PettingZooPerson.

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