History Main / UpliftedAnimal

* ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic'' includes the cybernetically-enhanced uplifted dolphin Jones, as in the original William Gibson story.

* ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' has uplifted apes of all kinds -- [[SapientCetaceans dolphins]], parrots, crows, octopi, orcas, whales, and pigs, all of which are entirely common player character backgrounds.:

* Creator/JohnScalzi's ''Literature/StarterVillain'' includes uplifted cats, dolphins, and humpback whales. The cats are management. The dolphins and [[spoiler: eventually the whales]] are unionized and strike for better work conditions in the villain's organization.

* ''Literature/ChildrenOfTime2015'': The prologue is about Doctor Kern starting an experiment intended to uplift monkeys on a terraformed world to full sapience within fifty generations. Unfortunately, a hardline faction against the "obsolescence of humanity" sabotages the project (at the same time as they start a war that ends up nearly annihilating the human race), resulting in all the monkeys being killed. However, the nanovirus intended to uplift the primates lands on the planet and finds hosts. While it was designed to avoid mammals and vertebrates to prevent the monkeys from having competition, it ends up finding fertile ground in invertebrate species, resulting in a world of GiantCreepyCrawlies. However, since the virus was never designed to work with them, its results are mixed; some insects end up merely giant, but not really that much more intelligent, others become intelligent enough to use as work animals, and the ants remain individually completely mindless but create a biological calculation engine that becomes the world's first superpower, complete with metallurgy and siege weapons, despite ''not actually being conscious''. The apex predators, at least on land, end up being a highly evolved form of jumping spider that slowly develop culture and technology comparable to human, if still completely alien.

* ''Literature/ChildrenOfTime2015'': The prologue is about Doctor Kern starting an experiment intended to uplift monkeys on a terraformed world to full sapience within fifty generations. Unfortunately, a hardline faction against the "obsolescence of humanity" sabotages the project (at the same time as they start a war that ends up nearly annihilating the human race), resulting in all the monkeys being killed. However, the nanovirus intended to uplift the primates lands on the planet and finds hosts. While it was designed to avoid mammals and vertebrates to prevent the monkeys from having competition, it ends up finding fertile ground in invertebrate species, resulting in a world of GiantCreepyCrawlies. However, since the virus was never designed to work with them, its results are mixed; some inects end up merely giant, but not really that much more intelligent, others become intelligent enough to use as work animals, and the ants remain individually completely mindless but create a biological calculation engine that becomes the world's first superpower, complete with metallurgy and siege weapons, despite ''not actually being conscious''. The apex predators, at least on land, end up being a highly evolved form of jumping spider that slowly develop culture and technology comparable to human, if still completely alien.

* ''Literature/ChildrenOfTime2015'': The prologue is about Doctor Kern starting an experiment intended to uplift monkeys on a terraformed world to full sapience within fifty generations. Unfortunately, a hardline faction against the "obsolescence of humanity" sabotages the project (at the same time as they start a war that ends up nearly annihilating the human race), resulting in all the monkeys being killed. However, the nanovirus intended to uplift the primates lands on the planet and finds hosts. While it was designed to avoid mammals and vertebraes to prevent the monkeys from having competition, it ends up finding fertile ground in invertebrae species, resulting in a world of GiantCreepyCrawlies. However, since the virus was never designed to work with them, its results are mixed; some inects end up merely giant, but not really that much more intelligent, others become intelligent enough to use as work animals, and the ants remain individually completely mindless but create a biological calculation engine that becomes the world's first superpower, complete with metallurgy and siege weapons, despite ''not actually being conscious''. The apex predators, at least on land, end up being a highly evolved form of jumping spider that slowly develop culture and technology comparable to human, if still completely alien.

* ''Literature/TheWarWithNoName'' series by Creator/RobertRepino: The Change caused animals to become more intelligent and anthropomorphic, giving them the ability to talk, understand human speech… and hold a lethal grudge against their owners for being their long-time oppressors.

* ''Literature/TheWarWithNoName'' series by Creator/RobertRepino: The Change caused animals to become more intelligent, giving them the ability to talk, understand human speech… and hold a lethal grudge against them for being their long-time oppressors.

* Bond from ''Manga/SpyXFamily'' is a dog who was experimented on as part of a secret government project to create hyper-intelligent dogs for covert operations. While he can't speak, he can understand human speech and complex instructions, picking up on things before even humans can. He also has the power [[{{Seers}} to see the future]]; while his visions aren't set in stone, he's smart enough to try avoiding any unpleasant futures he sees. [[DownplayedTrope That said]], he still usually defaults to thinking like a dog, and his ability to understand the complexities of human society is limited at best despite his general understanding of human language.

-->'''Olimar:''' Wait, so he was so disgusting that your brain ''evolved'' just so it could process the horrors it was witnessing?\\

* Parodied and played for laughs in [[https://youtu.be/OHvc4CaHOy8?feature=shared this]] ''Franchise/{{Pikmin}}'' animation by WebAnimation/DoobusGoobus, where a Bulborb mentions that he went from a mindless Pikmin-eating animal to a TalkingAnimal with morals after [[EveryoneHasStandards being horrified from watching how Louie eats Pikmin]].