These are tropes related to mammalian animals. Tropes related to specific types of mammals that have their own subindex should go on the subindex, not here.
While humans are mammals, tropes related to humans should go on Humans Are Indexed (For humans in general), Characters, or some other, more specific index.
Likewise, for tropes related to rabbits, dolphins, horses, monkeys and primates, seals, sea lions and walruses, cats, dogs (as well as wolves and foxes), rodents, bears, elephants, pigs, sheeps & goats, or cattle, see their own indices.
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- Aardvark Trunks: Ant-eating mammals such as anteaters, aardvarks, echidnas, and pangolins are depicted as having snouts that are flexible and expressive.
- Angry, Angry Hippos: Hippopotamuses are portrayed as particularly aggressive and brutish creatures.
- Bad Ol' Badger: Badgers portrayed as vicious, foul-tempered brutes.
- Bambification: Animals portrayed as much more sweet, cuddly and sanitized than in real life; usually happens to the cuddlier sort of mammals, usually deer.
- Bat Out of Hell: Exaggeratedly monstrous bats.
- Bat People: Either humanoid bats or humans with bat-like characteristics.
- Blind Bats: Bats depicted as being poorly-sighted, blind, or entirely eyeless.
- Bloodsucking Bats: Bats portrayed as blood-drinking menaces.
- Boxing Kangaroo: Kangaroos' preference for using their hands to fight exaggerated in to their being literal red-gloves-and-all boxers.
- Creepy Hairless Animal: Hairless versions of normally hairy creatures portrayed as creepy and unsettling.
- Diligent Draft Animal: Draft animals (donkeys, horses, mules, and oxen) are portrayed as diligent and hardworking.
- Drill Mole: Moles tunneling with literal drills.
- Frisky Ferret: Ferrets are bundles of energy.
- Genial Giraffe: Giraffes portrayed as easygoing and friendly folk.
- Heinous Hyena: Hyenas portrayed as vicious, underhanded, cowardly or otherwise unpleasant creatures.
- High Koala-ty Cuteness: Koalas stereotyped as cute and cuddly.
- Hood Hornament: Hunters displaying their kills by tying them down across their hoods; usually restricted to mammalian big game.
- Huggy, Huggy Hippos: Hippos are portrayed as cute and loveable.
- Kangaroos Represent Australia: Kangaroos used as visual symbols of Australia.
- Kangaroo Pouch Ride: People riding around in kangaroo pouches.
- Laid-Back Koala: Koalas stereotyped as lazy or ditzy.
- Llama Loogie: Spitting as a Stock Animal Behavior for camels, llamas, and alpacas.
- Mammal Monsters Are More Heroic: Mammal-like monsters are portrayed in a more sympathetic light than non-mammalian ones.
- The Marvelous Deer: Deer portrayed as mystical and magical creatures.
- Meek Mesozoic Mammal: Early mammals are portrayed as timid and easy prey for dinosaurs.
- Mole Men: People who live Beneath the Earth and look like mole/human crosses.
- Mole Miner: Moles and burrowing rodents who live and act like human miners.
- Moose Are Idiots: Moose portrayed as dimwitted saps.
- One-Eyed Bats: Bats with one eye.
- Playful Otter: Otters portrayed as genial beasts always up for games.
- Puzzling Platypus: Platypi's supposed chimerical nature played up as extremely puzzling or nonsensical.
- Rascally Raccoon: Raccoons portrayed as thieves and rogues.
- Rhino Rampage: Rhinos portrayed as gigantic brutes always ready to charge down anything that gets them mad.
- Sinister Deer Skull: Deer skulls portrayed as being creepy and unnatural.
- Shell Backpack: The shells of creatures such as armadillos portrayed as as removable accessories.
- Sluggish Sloths: Sloths are portrayed as slow in general.
- Smelly Skunk: Skunks depicted with emphasis on their defensive sprays, often simplified as them just smelling really bad.
- Snake Versus Mongoose: Mongooses and snakes are depicted as enemies, or opposing motifs.
- Somewhere, a Mammalogist Is Crying: Mammals portrayed in very inaccurate ways.
- Tomato Skunk Stink Cure: Sprayed by a skunk? You'll want to bathe in a literal tub of tomato juice to make the smell come off.
- Volatile Tasmanian Devil: Tasmanian Devils are portrayed as Ax-Crazy and unpredictable creatures.
- Weasel Mascot: Some sort of small mammal used as slightly more exotic Team Pet than a cat or a dog.
- Wicked Weasel: Weasels portrayed as shifty, untrustworthy creatures.
- White-Tailed Reindeer: Reindeer drawn looking more like generic deer than real reindeer.
- Wild West Armadillo: Armadillos used as visual symbols of The Wild West.
- World of Mammals: A World of Funny Animals is entirely or largely inhabited by human-like mammals.
