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* ClamshellsAsMouth: Bivalve shells functioning as mouths, sometimes with tongues inside of them or even having their soft bodies posing as tongues.

* Bivalve shells almost always [[ClamTrap function as mouths]], sometimes with tongues inside of them or even having their soft bodies posing as tongues.

* ClamTrap: Clams having their shells depicted as jaws, rather than sides.

* WhiteTailedReindeer:
Reindeer drawn looking more like generic deer than real reindeer.

* The borderline [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]] {{Squick}}y case of "male cows". [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Yes, bulls with udders.]]

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* Creator/ChuckECheese the mouse has a nose shaped a bit like a koala's nose.

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* The Mobian aquatic creatures, particularly the fish, in ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' have legs and humanoid bodies, to make them more anthropomorphic.
* In Berkely Breathed's ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' 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!!"
* This was also [[JustifiedTrope addressed]] in ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'', post-[[CerebusSyndrome syndrome]]: [[spoiler:Cerebus is a hermaphrodite, so his male genitalia is hidden inside his female outer genitalia when he's not "in position". Dead serious.]]
* The human characters of ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' have hands that look like paws.
* ComicStrip/{{Heathcliff}}, in both the comics and the animated series, has a large, bulbous black nose.

SubTrope of ArtMajorBiology.

** Patrick has his face (eyes and mouth) on one of his arms.

* MouthyBird: An anthropomorphic bird's beak is drawn/animated to act like lips or a nose.

* MouthyBird: An anthropomorphic bird's beak is drawn/animated to act like lips.

* Bird beaks are pliable, like human lips. Or [[WesternAnimation/AnimalCrackers worse]], they're like noses with a normal mouth underneath.
** Similar to the above, mammalian snouts are commonly portrayed as simply noses with a normal mouth underneath. This is especially common with pig snouts or dog muzzles.

* Koopas in the Super Mario Bros series are anthropomorphic turtles, though they seem to be able to remove their shells at will.

* NonhumansLackAttributes: Anthropomorphic animals depicted in fiction lack genitalia.
* NonmammalianHair: An anthropomorphic animal has hair when their species is bald or doesn’t have hair in real life.

* Lampshaded in the ''WesternAnimation/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?"

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': Tweety the canary, Porky Pig, and Petunia Pig have heads that are shaped like human heads.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad '' has Klaus the goldfish who can blink and has eyelids. He also doesn’t have to breath underwater, only some part of his body has to touch water, and even then, it can be any liquid.

* The weasels in ''Disney/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'', ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', and ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' (Yes, even ''House of Mouse'') have unusually long muzzles for weasels, being about as long as an average dog's muzzle. Real weasels' muzzles are a little longer than a small cat's muzzle, but shorter than a dog's muzzle. Also, many of the animals in the ''Mr. Toad'' segment are drawn with human-like fingernails in close up shots even though they belong to species that don't have human-like fingernails in RealLife.

* The dragonflies in ''[[Disney/FunAndFancyFree Mickey and the Beanstalk]]'' have beaks like birds.

* Averted by the various background animals from the "Circle of Life" opening of ''Disney/TheLionKing'' as they are designed realistically. This is in contrast to the cast of characters, which are more cartoonish.

* Cartoon sheep and goats usually have humanlike eyes, rather than the creepy horizontal pupils they have in real life.

Just remember that TropesAreTools and more often than not these are invoked simply because it's more [[RuleOfFun interesting]], [[RuleOfCute appealing]], or [[RealityIsUnrealistic expected]] to the viewer to utilize them and can [[LazyArtist make storytelling easier]] in some cases.