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* Any instance of a female rattlesnake guarding her eggs. In real life, rattlesnakes are live-bearers.

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* Beavers are usually drawn with white teeth even though real beavers have yellow or orange teeth.

* Cartoon rabbits and hares are usually drawn with noses shaped more like either cat noses and even dog noses than real rabbit noses.

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*** Patrick Star from ''{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' has his face (eyes and mouth) on one of his arms.
*** To be fair in Patrick's case, real sea stars have eyes on each of their arms. At least Patrick only has eyes placed on one of his arms.

** Frogs, though, are exceptions, since they ''do'' have small teeth.
**** As do birds at first, technically.

* SonicTheHedgehog is made of this trope. Most characters have caucasian skin, and Charmy, a bee, has a humanoid mouth. Also, it's hard to tell whether Sonic has joined quills or too few of them. Rouge, a bat, has both wings and arms. ''[[MostCommonSuperpower And tits]].''
** Sonic and Knuckles barely look like the animals they're supposed to be based off (a hedgehog and an echidna respectively).
* It's a recurring joke in cartoons for animals, walking upright, being [[NonhumansLackAttributes mysteriously devoid of any genitalia whatsoever]] (especially with males). ''Family Guy'' just barely averts this trope with the dog Brian, telling Peter to be grateful for what he's got when his "goes in when I stand up, how d'you think I feel?" And in Berkely Breathed's ''Bloom County'' days, the community is abuzz upon learning that one of them is actually female (after much paranoia and speculation, it later turns out to be [[spoiler: Rosebud]]). Portnoy, in a panic, checks himself in the bathroom only to cry, "No dice! Comic strip animals aren't anatomically correct!!"
** In a similar way, cartoon animals almost always lack an anus, even when it should be clearly visible below the tail.
** This was also [[JustifiedTrope addressed]] in ''Cerebus'', post-[[CerebusSyndrome syndrome]]: [[spoiler:Cerebus is a hermaphrodite, so his male ganitalia is hidden inside his female outer genitalia when he's not "in position". Dead serious.]]
* Bird beaks are pliable, like human lips.
** Or [[AnimalCrackers worse]], they're like noses with a normal mouth underneath.
* Lampshaded in the LooneyTunes short ''Duck Soup to Nuts'': the cartoon opens with Daffy Duck in a pond, filing his nails amid a group of realistic-looking mallards: "I kinda stand out in a crowd, don't I?"
* Lampshaded in ''CrashBandicoot'': 'You don't even look like a bandicoot!'

*** In contrast, [[PhineasAndFerb Perry the Platypus]] has a bill that looks as narrow as a real duck's bill except in direct front-view shots.

** [[LooneyTunes Tweety the canary, Porky Pig, and Petunia Pig]] have heads that are shaped like human heads.
** The weasels in the [[TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad Disney adaptation of]] TheWindInTheWillows, WhoFramedRogerRabbit, and HouseOfMouse (Yes, even HouseOfMouse) have unusually long muzzles for weasels, being about as long as an average dog's muzzle. Real weasel's muzzles are a little longer than small cat's muzzles, but shorter than a dog's muzzle.
* Beavers are usually drawn with white teeth even though real beavers have yellow or orange teeth.
** Beavers in ''TheCatInTheHat Knows A Lot About That'', however, have the correct color teeth (which is orange).

** Rabbits in ''WallaceAndGromit Curse Of The Were-Rabbit'' have noses shaped like ''pigs snouts''.

** Starfish usually have faces on the back of their bodies.
*** Patrick Star from ''{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' has his face on one of his arms.

* Beavers are usually drawn with white teeth even though real beavers have yellow or orange teeth.

** Rabbits in ''WallaceAndGromit Curse Of The Were-Rabbit'' have noses shaped like ''pigs' noses''.

** Rabbits in WallaceAndGromitCurseOfTheWererabbit have noses shaped like ''pig noses''.

* Ducks are usually drawn with bills that are wider than that of real ducks, often being as wide as a real platypus's bill.
** In contrast, [[PhineasAndFerb Perry the Platypus]] has a bill that looks as narrow as a real duck's bill except in direct front-view shots.
* Larger cat species are often drawn with longer muzzles than what they would have in real life, about as long as that of a dog with an average muzzle length, especially in older cartoons. Big cats may have longer muzzles than small cats, but their muzzles aren't as long as that of a mesocephalic (of normal muzzle length) dog.
* Rats and even mice are sometimes drawn with muzzles as long as that of dogs with an average muzzle length, longer than that of a real rat or a real mouse.
* [[LooneyTunes Tweety the canary, Porky Pig, and Petunia Pig]] have heads that are shaped like human heads.
* The weasels in the [[TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad Disney adaptation of]] TheWindInTheWillows, WhoFramedRogerRabbit, and HouseOfMouse (Yes, even HouseOfMouse) have unusually long muzzles for weasels, being about as long as an average dog's muzzle. Real weasel's muzzles are a little longer than small cat's muzzles, but shorter than a dog's muzzle.

* The weasels in the [[IchabodAndMrToad Disney adaptation of]] TheWindInTheWillows, WhoFramedRogerRabbit, and HouseOfMouse (Yes, even HouseOfMouse) have unusually long muzzles for weasels, being about as long as an average dog's muzzle. Real weasel's muzzles are a little longer than small cat's muzzles, but shorter than a dog's muzzle.

* Larger cat species are often drawn with longer muzzles than what they would have in real life (about as long as that of a dog with an average muzzle length), especially in older cartoons. Big cats may have longer muzzles than small cats, but their muzzles aren't as long as that of a mesocephalic (of normal muzzle length) dog.

* [[LooneyTunes Tweety the canary, Porky Pig, and Petunia Pig]] have heads that are shaped like human heads.

* SonicTheHedgehog is made of this trope. Most characters have caucasian skin, and Charmy, a bee, has a humanoid mouth. Also, it's hard to tell whether Sonic has joined quills or too few of them. Rouge, a bat, has both wings and arms. ''[[NonMammalMammaries And]] [[MostCommonSuperpower tits]].''

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** TailfinWalking

** in a similar way, cartoon animals almost always lack an anus, even when it should be clearly visible below the tail.

*** Patrick Star from {{SpongeBob SquarePants}} has his face on one of his arms.
* Not only birds, but sometimes also toads, bugs, earthworms, etcetera... will have teeth. Especially {{egregious}} when dealing with invertebrates.

* In a lot of animated works, animals are drawn with heads, faces, muzzles, beaks, or bills that look different from what they look in real life.
** For example, ducks are usually drawn with bills that are wider than that of real ducks, often being as wide as a real platypus's bill. Larger cat species are often drawn with longer muzzles than what they would have in real life (about as long as that of a dog with an average muzzle length), especially in older cartoons. Big cats may have longer muzzles than small cats, but their muzzles aren't as long as that of a mesocephalic (of normal muzzle length) dog. Rats and even mice are sometimes drawn with muzzles as long as that of dogs with an average muzzle length, longer than that of a real rat or a real mouse.
*** [[PhineasAndFerb Perry the Platypus]] has a bill that looks as narrow as a real duck's bill except in direct front-view shots.
** [[LooneyTunes Tweety the canary, Porky Pig, and Petunia Pig]] have heads that are shaped like human heads.

* SonicTheHedgehog is made of this trope. Most characters have caucasian skin, and Charmy, a bee, has a humanoid mouth. Also, it's hard to tell whether Sonic has joined quills or too few of them. Rouge, a bat, has both wings and arms. ''[[{{Squick}} And]] [[MostCommonSuperpower tits]].''