Civilized Animal

Civilized animals are an intermediate level between normal animals (whether speech capable or mute) and mere intellectual animals (whether speech capable or mute) and funny animals.  They usually think and act partly like a human and partly like the species they happen to be.  They can either think and act more like a human or more like their respective species. They do some to many of the things that usually only humans do.  They occupy their species natural role in the ecosystem and may either live on the fringes of human society or not. 

Civilized animals can wear clothes, live in houses, and are often depicted walking and running on two legs, but have largely to completely non-humanoid bodies.  They can either be both two legged and four legged or almost always be bipedal.  Most civilized animals have either non-humanoid or semi-humanoid bodies, but some furries can live like civilized animals as well. 

Rabbits in waistcoats, a semi-derogatory term used to describe civilized animals, probably originated from The White Rabbit from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

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Examples On The Verge of Being Funny Animals

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Talking Animal

Talking animals are animals that can actually talk and be understood by humans whether or not they are speech impaired.  Mere talking animals are usually completely non-anthropomorphic and largely to pretty much think and act like the actual animal species they happen to be.  Also, mere talking animals only do very few to some of the things that usually only humans do.  

Mere talking animals usually don't wear clothes and they occupy their species natural role in the ecosystem.  A lot of talking animals can walk and run on two legs.  They can either be both two legged and four legged, or almost always just be quadrupedal.  Talking animals can also be civilized animals, funny animals, semi-furries, furries, gijinka, animal attibute humans, or even intellectual animals, but they are usually basically normal animals with the ability to talk. 

A variant of talking animal features a normal animal that has been artificially granted the ability to talk through something like science or magic. 

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Mere Talking Animal Examples

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Furry or Humanoid Animal (30-62.5%)

A furry, or petting zoo person, is an animal with a fully anthropomorphic body.  Their body is basically an animal's head, tail (if the species or character has one), skin, fur, feather, or scale coloring and pattern, and even feet stuck on a furry (feathered in the case of birds and scaly in the case of reptiles) human body. Their feet can be either digitgrade, unguligrade (standing on a hoof), or plantigrade and can be more animal-like or more human-like in basic shape.  Their feet and hands can feature either feature pawpads and/or claws of varying degrees or bare palms and/or fingernails and toenails.  They usually have humanlike breasts.

Furries nearly always think and act completely like human beings, but some can either live and/or be like civilized animals or like funny animals to some degree.  They wear clothes just like a human would but the type of clothes varies with each setting and culture.  In "modern" or science fiction settings and cultures, they will wear modern-day attire, while in fantasy or "native" settings and cultures, they might wear only a loincloth and jewelry, or even forego clothing entirely. 

The term furry can either refer just to a humanoid mammal or to any kind of anthropomorphic animal.  A humanoid bird is called an avian, and a humanoid reptile is called a scaly.

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Examples On The Verge of Being Gijinka

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