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2[[caption-width-right:350: The animal kingdom: living proof that TheWorldIsJustAwesome.]]
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4You know, animals! Those living, moving, eating, breathing, biting, clawing, stinging things that are clearly not human (and are often darn proud of it).
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6These are tropes that somehow relate to animals, to characters who are animals and to their dealings with humans.
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8'''Only list tropes on this index if they do not already have an appropriate sub-index.'''
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10Also note that some tropes may qualify for more than one sub-index.
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12For tropes about the [[Franchise/TheMuppets muppet]] named Animal, see [[Characters/TheMuppetShow here]] (or, if you can bear an all-capital SelfDemonstratingArticle, then [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Animal}} here]]).
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14Compare and contrast PlantTropes.
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16!!Tropes:
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20[[folder:'''Indexes''']]
21[[AC:General categories]]
22+ AnimalAnthropomorphismTropes: Tropes about all kinds of sapient animal characters who act (or even look) like humans.
23++ BeastMan: Types of humanoid species with features of various animals.
24++ FunnyAnimalTropes: Tropes about {{Funny Animal}}s and {{Civilized Animal}}s.
25+++ FunnyAnimalAnatomy: Tropes about the anatomical structure of these humanoid animals.
26++ SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism: The varieties of anthropomorphic animal characters, ranging from more humanlike to more animalistic.
27++ WerebeastTropes: [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Werebeasts]] (or therianthropes) are various {{shapeshifting}} creatures who all have the (in)voluntary ability to change between human and animal forms.
28+ AnimalMotifs: {{Motifs}} and symbolism involving animals.
29+ AnimalStereotypes: {{Stereotype}}s that are often associated with particular animals in media.
30++ AnimalJingoism: Classic pairs of animals that are often depicted as natural enemies.
31++ AnimalOccupationStereotypes: Animals typically associated with certain jobs.
32++ NationalAnimalStereotypes: When animal stereotypes are combined with NationalStereotypes of various countries/regions or human ethnicities/nationalities.
33++ PleasantAnimalsIndex: Stereotypes of animals considered to be cute, friendly, or heroic.
34++ ScaryAnimalsIndex: Stereotypes of animals that are often treated as being AlwaysChaoticEvil.
35+ BigTropeHunting: Tropes about (animal or human) predators hunting down their prey to capture, kill, and/or eat them.
36++ MeatOfTheIndex: Tropes about animals or humans consuming the flesh of other (dead) animals for food.
37+ AnEggcellentIndex: Tropes about all kinds of animal eggs, for the purpose of reproduction (or consumption as food).
38+ PetAndAnimalCompanionTropes: Tamed or domesticated animals that humans keep around for close company.
39++ AttackAnimal: Animals trained to fight and kill on command.
40++ LoyalAnimalCompanion: A pet that always stays close to their human friends.
41+ TailOfTheIndex: Tropes about tails, an appendage that many animals have.
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43[[AC:Specific animals]]
44+ AquaticAnimalTropes: Tropes for all kinds of water-dwelling animals (which has some considerable overlap with multiple different categories below).
45++ TheseTropesAreFishy: Tropes about all sorts of cold-blooded, water-breathing vertebrates (including bony fish and cartilaginous fish).
46+ AvianTropes: Tropes about birds, warm-blooded vertebrates with beaks, feathers, and wings.
47++ CorvidTropes: Tropes about birds in the Corvidae family (crows, ravens, magpies, etc).
48++ ThisIndexQuacks: Tropes about waterfowl birds (ducks, geese, swans, etc).
49+ InvertebrateIndex: Tropes for all the (literally) spineless animals lacking vertebrae (backbones); including arthropods, mollusks, worms, etc.
50++ ArachnidTropes: Tropes about spiders, scorpions, and other related eight-legged arthropods.
51++ InsectIndex: Tropes about all six-legged arthropods with pairs of antennae and compound eyes.
52++ MolluskTropes: Tropes about mollusks, including gastropods (snails and slugs) and bivalves (clams and oysters).
53+++ CephalopodIndex: Tropes about squids, octopi, and other tentacled marine mollusks.
54+ MammalTropes: Tropes about mammals, warm-blooded vertebrates with fur/hair that were raised on their mother's milk.
55++ AndOnThatIndexHeHadSomePigs: Tropes about hogs and swine, both wild and domestic.
56++ BearTropes: Tropes about all those big mammals in the Ursidae family.
57++ BunnyTropes: Tropes about hares and rabbits of the Leporidae family.
58++ DolphinsDolphinsEverywhere: Tropes about marine mammals called cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises).
59++ ElephantTropes: Tropes about elephants and mammoths, distinguished by their huge size and long prehensile snouts.
60++ EquineAndEquestrianTropes: Tropes about horses, donkeys, mules, etc.
61++ PrimateIndex: Tropes about apes, monkeys, and lemurs.
62+++ HumansAreIndexed: Tropes about these weird, upright-walking apes, the only animal in the world that's known to read and edit Website/TVTropes pages.
63++ RodentTropes: Tropes about mice, rats, squirrels, and other related small mammals with long incisor teeth.
64++ SealTropes: Tropes about marine mammals called pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, and walruses).
65++ ThisIndexBarks: Tropes about all mammals in the Canidae (dog) family.
66+++ AFoxyIndex: Tropes about foxes, canids that are mostly in the Vulpini tribe.
67+++ WolfTropes: Tropes about (grey) wolves, the wild relatives of domestic dogs.
68++ ThisIndexIsHavingACowMan: Tropes about cattle, both wild and domestic.
69++ ThisIndexMeows: Tropes about all mammals in the Felidae (cat) family.
70++ TropesThatGoBaaa: Tropes about goats and sheep.
71+ ReptileAndAmphibianTropes: Tropes about all sorts of cold-blooded, air-breathing vertebrates (from the Reptilia and Amphibia classes).
72++ IndexInAHalfShell: Tropes about turtles and tortoises, reptiles known for their armored shells.
73++ SnakeAndSerpentTropes: Tropes about all those elongated, limbless reptiles.
74+ TropesaurusIndex: Tropes about various extinct and prehistoric animals, including (but not limited to) the dinosaurs.
75[[/folder]]
76
77[[folder:Tropes (A-M)]]
78* AbsentAnimalCompanion: Pets tend to show up in one episode of an episodic series, and disappear forever by the next.
79* AccidentallyCorrectZoology: A fictional species, or trait of an existing animal, is made up, only for it to turn out to exist in real life.
80* AdaptationSpeciesChange: An adaptation changes a character's species.
81* AdjectiveAnimalAlehouse: A bar called "The ''[Adjective] [Animal]''".
82* AdoringThePests: Someone welcomes vermin animals into their house.
83* AlienAnimals: Extraterrestrial wildlife.
84* AllAnimalsAreDogs: All animals behave the same way as canines.
85* AllAnimalsAreDomesticated: Wild animals can all be easily tamed into docile pets.
86* AllFlyersAreBirds: All flying animals behave the same way as avians.
87* AlternateAnimalAffection: Animals have their own way of showing affection analogous to kissing.
88* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Animals with bizarre, unrealistic colors.
89* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: An animal that's unrealistically smart and may be able to understand language, but isn't anthropomorphic and can't talk.
90* AnachronisticAnimal: An animal shows up in a [[AnachronismStew time period when it didn't even exist yet in real life]].
91* AngryAnimalisticGrowl: The growl of an animal means they're completely ticked off.
92* AnimalAssassin: A deadly animal is used as a murder weapon.
93* AnimalAthleteLoophole: An underdog sports team brings a pet in to play and wins the game.
94* AnimalBattleAura: An animal motif appears around or behind a martial artist in battle.
95* AnimalChickMagnet: Women who like animals want to date men who share a similar interest in pets.
96* AnimalDisguise: A human disguised as an animal.
97* AnimalEspionage: Animals are used as spies.
98* AnimalEyes: A human with animal-like eyes.
99* AnimalGenderBender: An animal's gender isn't consistent with their appearance because they look closer to a specimen of the opposite gender.
100* AnimalGoesToSchool: An animal not normally seen in a school setting is in one.
101* AnimalIsTheNewMan: Animals have replaced humans as Earth's dominant species and have become sapient.
102* AnimalLover: A person who is very fond of animals.
103** FriendToAllLivingThings: Someone who loves all animals and is loved by them.
104*** FriendToBugs: Someone who even likes insects and other creatures that aren't considered to be cute by most people.
105** NaiveAnimalLover: A foolish human who wrongly believes that [[AllAnimalsAreDomesticated wild animals are all friendly and harmless]].
106* AnimalMecha: A {{Mecha}} built in the shape of an animal.
107* AnimalMetaphor: When an animal is used for symbolism.
108* AnimalNamingConventions: Animals don't have human names, or if they do, they have another, "real" name separate from what the humans named them.
109* AnimalNemesis: A human who sees an animal as their nemesis.
110* AnimalReactionShot: A ReactionShot from an animal.
111* AnimalSpeciesAccent: A talking animal who speaks with an accent reminiscent of their species.
112* AnimalStampede: A destructive, running group of scared animals.
113* AnimalSuperheroes: Anthropomorphic animals who fight crime.
114* AnimalSweetOnObject: An animal gets the hots for an inanimate object, usually mistaking it for an animal of the same species.
115* AnimalTesting: Animals are used as test subjects in laboratory experiments, because it's far more legal than [[TestedOnHumans doing the same to humans]].
116** LabPet: An animal test subject is treated as a pet by the scientist studying them.
117* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: A {{superhero}} or {{supervillain}} who styles their name, costume, or abilities after an animal.
118* AnimalWrongsGroup: A group of animal rights activists who are willing to hurt and kill other human beings if it will help their goal to prevent animals from being harmed or killed.
119* AnimalisticAbomination: An EldritchAbomination which looks or acts like a much more monstrous version of an ordinary animal.
120* AnimalsHateHim: Animals react negatively to a particular individual.
121** EvilDetectingDog: An animal is able to sense the presence of evil people, dangerous situations, and/or supernatural phenomena.
122* AnimalsLackAttributes: Animals are depicted without genitalia.
123* AnimalsNotToScale: An animal isn't the same size as it would be in real life.
124* AnimalsRespectNature: Animals have a special respect for nature and the cycle of life.
125* AnimalsSeeInMonochrome: Animals, especially dogs and to a lesser extent cats, see in black-and-white.
126* {{Animorphism}}: When a person [[{{Shapeshifting}} (in)voluntarily transforms into]] a non-human animal.
127** AttractiveBentSpecies: A human transformed into an animal is attractive to other animals of that same species (or vice versa).
128** OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Instead of a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]], someone transforms into a different kind of were-animal.
129* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Humans treat their pets in ways that would be very dangerous in real life.
130* ArtisticLicenseMarineBiology: Sea life portrayed inaccurately in fiction for the purposes of the story.
131* AscendedToCarnivorism: An herbivorous animal decides to try out meat and move up to another level in the food chain.
132* AssInALionSkin: An animal pretending to be another of a different species.
133* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: When a villain decides to (literally) KickTheDog by needlessly harming and mistreating animals, usually for sadistic reasons.
134** BeastlyBloodsports: Animals are forced to [[GladiatorGames fight to the death for the entertainment of callous humans]].
135** BlackComedyAnimalCruelty: When the abuse of animals is played for [[BlackComedy dark humor]].
136** CruellaToAnimals: It's shown how vile a person is by establishing that they're willing to kill animals for their meat or hide, especially EndangeredSpecies.
137*** FurAndLoathing: Wearing animal skins signifies a character as a villain.
138** HuntingIsEvil: People who hunt wild animals (especially for reasons besides acquiring their meat for food) are often portrayed as bad guys.
139*** EgomaniacHunter: An arrogant game hunter who gets too much enjoyment from killing animals for sport.
140*** EvilPoacher: A hunter who is willing to illegally kill or capture endangered wildlife for money.
141** MicrowaveTheDog: Killing a pet by putting it into a microwave.
142* BatScare: Characters are exploring an environment void of other people but where animals are present, then a group of flying animals fly out, scaring them.
143* BeastFable: Using animals to tell a story with a [[AnAesop moral]].
144* BeastOfTheApocalypse: An animal who tries to bring out an apocalypse.
145* BestialityIsDepraved: Gags involving humans having sex with animals.
146* BilingualAnimal: An animal that both speaks a human language and its animal language.
147* ButtBiter: An animal bites someone on their behind.
148* CallASmeerpARabbit: Calling an unusual creature the name of a mundane animal.
149* CaninesPrimaryFelinesSecondary: A work features both cats and dogs, and the cats play second fiddle to the dogs in some way.
150* CarnivoreConfusion: The dietary concerns of sapient/anthropomorphic animals become a lot more morally complicated when it comes to eating meat.
151* CartoonCreature: An animal of indeterminate species.
152* CatDogDichotomy: Cats and dogs are depicted as being each other's polar opposites.
153* ChasingAButterfly: A kid or similarly innocent character chases a small animal out of curiosity.
154* ChildrenInTow: An animal being followed by its offspring.
155* CockroachesWillRuleTheEarth: A BadFuture, in which humans are extinct and a species evolved from a small animal has taken our place.
156* ColdBloodedWhatever: A vertebrate creature which has mixed traits of reptiles, amphibians, and fish.
157* ConeOfShame: Dogs wearing cones around their necks to keep them from picking at stitches from surgery.
158* ConvenientDecoyCat: A character being chased is about to be caught due to making a noise, but then a small animal shows up and the chaser mistakenly thinks the animal made the sound.
159* CreepyHairlessAnimal: Bald mammals look freaky.
160* CryingCritters: Non-anthropomorphic animals cry.
161* CubCuesProtectiveParent: If you foolishly approach a young animal, their angry parent will attack you for getting too close to their child.
162* CuteButCacophonic: A small animal with a loud cry.
163* CuteClumsyCreature: Cute animal + Place full of fragile objects = Chaos!
164* DeadAnimalWarning: Sending someone an animal's corpse as a warning.
165* DeathbringerTheAdorable: A cute, harmless animal with a deceptively scary name.
166* DeceptivelyCuteCritter: An animal pretends to be sweet and innocent to manipulate human characters.
167* DelusionsOfDoghood: A human believes they are an animal.
168* DetectiveAnimal: An animal who solves crimes and mysteries.
169* DiligentDraftAnimal: Draft animals (donkeys, horses, mules, and oxen) are portrayed as diligent and hardworking.
170* DireBeast: A larger version of an existing animal.
171* DisneyCreaturesOfTheFarce: A scene that parodies the whole "animals love Disney princesses" thing.
172* DisneyDogFight: Two people want custody of a pet, so they let the pet decide.
173* DiurnalNocturnalAnimal: A nocturnal animal is somehow active during the daytime.
174* DogsHateSquirrels: Dogs depicted as attacking squirrels.
175* ADogNamedCat: An animal is named after something of a different species.
176* ADogNamedDog: An individual animal's name is the same as its species.
177* ADogNamedPerro: An individual animal is named after the name of its species in a different language than the one primarily used in the work it's in.
178* DubSpeciesChange: A translation changes a character's species.
179* EarsAsHair: Anthropomorphic animals style their ears like hair.
180* EarNotch: When an animal has a notch out of their ear, that's a sign that they've been through bad stuff and/or are tough or evil.
181* EasternZodiac: Zodiacs from East Asian countries that tie animals into personality types.
182* EggLayingMale: Males of oviparous species are capable of laying eggs in fiction.
183* ElephantGraveyard: A place where very large animals (usually elephants, hence the name) go to die.
184* EmergencyFoodSupplyAnimal: When there's an emergency, a domesticated animal gets eaten.
185* EndangeredPest: An endangered species causes somebody a significant problem that's difficult to deal with because the organism is endangered.
186* EndangeredSpecies: An (animal) species that is almost extinct due to natural or artificial causes.
187* EnemyToAllLivingThings: Someone who animals are scared of, or who causes living things to die.
188* EscapedAnimalRampage: An animal held in captivity by humans somehow escapes and causes trouble.
189* EvenTheDogIsAshamed: Everybody is mad at somebody, even an animal.
190* EvenTheRatsWontTouchIt: When a food is so gross or tough that even vermin aren't interested in it.
191* ExitPursuedByABear: The villain ends up chased by an animal that intends to harm them.
192* ExplosiveBreeder: An animal that is capable of giving birth to numerous offspring at once.
193* ExpressiveEars: A character uses their ears to express emotion.
194* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Either a made-up species that behaves like a certain real species, or an extant species that behaves like another, more familiar species.
195* FantasticMedicinalBodilyProduct: A creature has a bodily product, such as blood, spittle, etc. that has healing properties.
196* FantasticVermin: Magical, alien, or otherwise otherworldly everyday pests.
197* FedToTheBeast: Throwing a captive person to a hungry animal so they can be EatenAlive.
198* FluffyDryCat: When an animal is soaked, then dried, it looks fluffier than usual.
199* FluffyTheTerrible: A dangerous animal with a deceptively cute pet name.
200* FollowTheWhiteRabbit: Characters chase an animal into a strange place.
201* FoodAndAnimalAttraction: A character has food on their person that attracts an animal.
202* ForebodingFleeingFlock: A group of animals running away spells danger.
203* FormerlySapientSpecies: Animals that were once people.
204* FreeRangePets: Someone allows their pets to roam around wherever they please.
205* FromStrayToPet: A feral animal living in the wild gets taken into a human home.
206* FurIsClothing: An animal's fur is treated like clothing, with shaved animals treated as if they were naked.
207* FurIsSkin: An animal's fur is conflated with its skin.
208* GenderEqualsBreed: Two animals have children whose genders are determined by which parent they look like.
209* GhostlyAnimals: The undead spirits of nonhuman animals.
210* GiantAnimalWorship: A primitive tribe worships a large animal.
211* GiantFlyer: A huge, flying creature.
212* GoodTamingEvilTaming: Heroes tame animals with affection, while villains tame them in an abusive way.
213* HeliCritter: Animals who can use parts of their bodies as propellers.
214* HerbivoresAreFriendly: Plant-eating animals are harmless and docile.
215* HibernationMigrationSituation: Drama arises when an animal character needs to hibernate or migrate after the seasons change.
216* HilarityInZoos: Going to the zoo, played for comedy.
217* HypnosisProofDogs: Mind control only affects humans, not animals.
218* IAmNotWeasel: An animal is mistaken for a species it plainly isn't.
219* {{Imprinting}}: Young animals assume the first living thing they see is their parent.
220* IncompetentGuardAnimal: An animal is assigned to guard something but bungles it up.
221* IncorrectAnimalNoise: An animal makes the wrong sound, and it's not played as a joke.
222* InformedSpecies: When a cartoon animal looks nothing like the species they're supposed to be.
223* IntellectualAnimal: An animal with human-level intelligence.
224* IntelligentGerbil: An creature resembling an animal, who's anthropomorphic, but ''not'' sapient.
225* InterspeciesAdoption: A young animal is raised by [[ParentalSubstitute adoptive parents]] from another species.
226** RaisedByWolves: A human child who was raised by wild animals.
227** RaisedInCaptivity: A member of a wild animal species who was raised in a human environment.
228* InterspeciesFriendship: Two animals of different species befriend each other.
229** ACatInAGangOfDogs: A cat who socializes with a group of dogs.
230** PredatorPreyFriendship: A friendship between two different animals who are supposedly natural enemies.
231* InterspeciesRomance: Two animals of different species fall in love with each other.
232** HotSkittyOnWailordAction: Romance between a larger animal and a smaller animal of both vastly different sizes and species.
233* IntroducedSpeciesCalamity: A new invasive species is introduced to an area and ends up damaging the local ecosystem.
234* KillerRabbit: A small, cute animal that is actually quite deadly.
235* KindlyVet: A vet who's a NiceGuy or gal.
236* LastOnesPloy: An animal that’s part of an endangered species uses their status to receive legal protection.
237* LickedByTheDog: An animal or baby shows affection towards an intimidating character.
238* ALizardNamedLiz: A non-human creature has a name that references their species.
239* MakeTheDogTestify: Animals have to appear in a courtroom trial.
240* MatingSeasonMayhem: An animal going into heat is a plot point.
241* MechanicalAnimals: Robots that resemble or are based on animals.
242* MenagerieOfMisery: A collection of animals kept in inadequate accommodations.
243* MessyMaleFancyFemale: Male animals look scruffy while females look neat.
244* MightyRoar: Large animals always roar loudly.
245* UsefulNotes/MilitaryAnimals: Animals that are trained and used by humans for warfare.
246* MimicSpecies: A species of animal whose evolutionary history has it mimic another species.
247* MiracleGroMonster: A character has a strange pet that, if one particular thing happens to them, they will grow and grow.
248* MisplacedWildlife: Animals appear in locations where they're very unlikely to be seen in real life.
249* MixAndMatchCritters: An animal that looks like a combination of two or more animals.
250* MountedMook: A {{mook|s}} would ride a (usually evil) creature either for traversal or for battle.
251* MultipleTailedBeast: A creature with more than one tail.
252* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast: Music can make aggressive animals behave.
253* MysteriousAnimalSenses: Animals with bizarre senses.
254[[/folder]]
255
256[[folder:Tropes (N-Z)]]
257* NatureIsNotNice: Wild animals live in a [[CrapsackWorld harsh, cruel, unforgiving world]] where every minute is spent just trying to survive.
258* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: When children or animals on set do something the directors didn't want them to do.
259* NiceKitty: Making BabyTalk to a dangerous animal to try to appease it.
260* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: A work gives a disclaimer that despite the film depicting animals getting killed, imperiled, or abused, such depictions were simulated and no animal involved in the film was hurt for real.
261* NoisyNature: Animals making sounds even when they logically should be quiet.
262* TheNoseKnows: A character with an enhanced sense of smell.
263* NotSoExtinct: An animal species that was believed to have died out long ago turns out to still exist.
264* OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: Legendary and mythical animals that are not proven to exist in the real world. But works of fiction on the other hand...
265* PaleFemalesDarkMales: Females of an animal species have lighter colors while males are darker.
266* ParasitesAreEvil: Animals that live in or on other animals are depicted as evil.
267* APetIntoTheWild: A domestic animal who lived with humans becomes a stray, and now has to fend for itself in the wilderness.
268* PetsVersusStrays: Domestic animals and feral animals don't really agree on the merits of life with humans.
269* APigNamedPorkchop: An animal is named after the meat, food, or other animal products that could come from it.
270* {{Planimal}}: A hybrid creature that is both a plant and an animal.
271* PortrayedByDifferentSpecies: An animal is portrayed as a different species.
272* PoundsAreAnimalPrisons: Pounds are treated as being the animal equivalent of a prison.
273* PredationIsNatural: Animals eating other animals is simply a fact of life that can't be avoided.
274* PredatorsAreMean: Animals that eat other animals are depicted as being evil.
275* PregnantReptile: A non-mammal bears live young.
276* RaisingTheSteaks: [[NonhumanUndead Non-human animals turned into undead zombies]].
277* RampageFromANail: A persistent injury drives an animal into a frenzy.
278* RealisticSpeciesCartoonySpecies: Animals tend to look less (semi)realistic than humans in animated cartoons.
279* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: An animal designed to be cute.
280* RoadApples: Jokes about animal poop.
281* SapientAllAlong: A seemingly dumb animal turns out to actually be just as smart as humans are.
282* SapientPet: A domestic animal companion who has humanlike intelligence.
283* SapientSteed: A mounted animal with the same intellect as the person who rides it.
284* ScareTheDog: When a guard dog or similar animal is intimidated by a scary character.
285* ScavengersAreScum: When the hero is a carnivore, the villain will often be a scavenger.
286* ShyShelledAnimal: A shy animal with a shell.
287* SidekickCreatureNuisance: A bumbling animal sidekick.
288* SignatureRoar: A monster or animal has a specific noise in lieu of a CharacterCatchphrase.
289* SillyAnimalSound: Animals making the wrong sounds, played for comedy.
290* SmallTaxonomyPools: Fiction only shows a few familiar species.
291* SlidingScaleOfAnimalCast: A scale of number of animals compared to humans in fiction, from no humans to no animals.
292* SlidingScaleOfAnimalCommunication: A scale that ranges from no animals being able to talk to all animals being able to talk.
293* SmartAnimalInconvenientInstincts: An animal that's sapient but has inconvenient instincts.
294* SpeciesEqualsGender: Certain kinds of animals are more likely to be depicted as being male or female.
295* SpeciesSurname: An anthropomorphic animal has their species as their family name.
296* SqueamishAboutSlaughter: Animal slaughter scares, or grosses out, a character.
297* SquirrelsInMyPants: Animals in somebody's clothes make the person squirm.
298* StockAnimalBehavior: Animal species are stereotyped as all acting in a certain way.
299* StockAnimalDiet: Different animals prefer [[TrademarkFavoriteFood specific types of food]].
300* StockAnimalFacts: Common facts (or myths) often stated about specific animals.
301* StockAnimalName: Humans aren't very original when it comes to naming animals.
302* StrayAnimalStory: A story focusing on stray or feral animals.
303* SuperPersistentPredator: A predatory animal chases the protagonists to kingdom come.
304* SuspiciouslyStealthyPredator: A predatory animal that doesn't know about human technology, yet avoids it or knows how to neutralise it.
305* TheSwarm: A group of very small, dangerous creatures.
306* TaxonomicTermConfusion: Terms like "domain", "species", and "genus" get confused.
307* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: An animal is meant to be scary, yet fails to look or act scary due to being played by a tame animal.
308* ThisBearWasFramed: Somebody commits a murder and frames an animal.
309* TranslatorCollar: Something that can enable animals to talk to humans.
310* TreatedWorseThanThePet: Someone's status in their family is so low that even animals are treated better or valued more than they are.
311* TributeToFido: An author writes a tribute to a real-life animal in their story.
312* TroublemakingNewPet: A character with a pet gets a second pet, who makes a mess and the owner assumes the original pet made the mess.
313* TuftOfHeadFur: An animal with a tuft of fur or feathers on their head.
314* UnpleasantAnimalCounterpart: The EvilCounterpart of a "good" animal.
315* UnusualAnimalAlliance: When a group of animals are in trouble, they'll have to team up despite ordinarily not being inclined to do so.
316* UrineTrouble: An animal urinates on something or someone for comic effect.
317* VegetarianCarnivore: A predatory animal decides to eat plants instead.
318* VerberCreature: An animal's species is named after what they do.
319* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: A vertebrate animal with more than four limbs.
320* ViewerSpeciesConfusion: Viewers get an animal character's species wrong.
321* WeaponizedAnimal: Using an animal with weapons mounted on it to attack.
322* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Naming a pet after someone as an insult or tribute.
323* WhaleEgg: An animal that gives birth to its young in real life is depicted as laying eggs.
324* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: It's considered okay to kill animals that are ugly or terrifying.
325* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: It's considered okay to mercilessly kill any creature that isn't human.
326* WildlifeCommentarySpoof: Parodies of nature shows.
327* WoodlandCreatures: Forest animals.
328* WrestlerOfBeasts: Characters are shown as awesome by having them fight (and sometimes even win against) ferocious animals in close quarters without relying on traps or ranged weaponry.
329* XenophobicHerbivore: Prey animals are not fond of their natural predators for obvious reasons.
330* YetAnotherBabyPanda: Animal videos on the news.
331[[/folder]]

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