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* The early ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon ''WesternAnimation/HoneymoonHotel'' is set in one of these. Bugtown is populated entirely by insects, with buildings made out of objects like cans, lunch boxes, and tea kettles.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}''

%%* ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}''

%%* ''WesternAnimation/MissSpidersSunnyPatchFriends''

* ''WesternAnimation/AlphaAndOmega'' focuses on wolves alongside other animals, and they occasionally have to deal with humans that get involve in their environment.

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%%* ''WesternAnimation/FishHooks''
%%* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''

* Terry Pratchett's Nac Mac Feegle (aka the Pictsies) in ''Wee Free Men'' and other ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' books, finger-sized blue people who live in human burial mounds. His earlier children's books, ''Literature/TheCarpetPeople'' and ''[[Literature/NomesTrilogy The Bromeliad Trilogy]]'' (''Truckers'', ''Diggers'', and ''Wings'') are a more obvious example.

If they deal with human opponents directly, expect clever trickery, stealth and the odd ColossusClimb or GulliverTieDown. They may become DinkyDrivers to operate human vehicles. In more rural or wilderness settings, they may live in {{Mushroom House}}s. If humans aren't aware of them in the slightest (as in most cases), it's usually because they either have a strong WeirdnessCensor, the tiny species is keeping a complex and clever [[TheMasquerade masquerade]], they operate a MobileSuitHuman or two, or they simply regard talking and/or clothed {{Funny Animal}}s or tiny humanoids as an UnusuallyUninterestingSight. In some cases one lucky human ([[ChildrenAreSpecial usually a child]]) SpeaksFluentAnimal and is the only human character in the story aware of the tiny species. In combination with an IncredibleShrinkingMan, you can have a TrappedInAnotherWorld plot. Other slightly larger animals such as cats and dogs may also play a role in this world, but expect AnimalJingoism to come into play, along with examples of CatsAreMean.

* Most of ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' is set in a "normal" human world; however, the episode "The Third Mouse" (a parody of ''Film/TheThirdMan'') is set inexplicably in a 1940's Mouse World.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' (which was based on a series of books by Eve Titus, ''Literature/BasilOfBakerStreet''). Exaggerated in that while set in London, the mouse version of London is almost exactly the same as the human, without BambooTechnology. They have clockwork, ''guns'', functioning cabarets and (bizarrely) even Queen Mousetoria, who's an identical mouse version of Queen Victoria. Also, living directly under SherlockHolmes' house is Basil, a mouse who's an amazingly clear if Disney-fied {{Expy}} of Holmes himself.

%%* ''Literature/TheLittles''

* ''VideoGame/BugFables'' is set in the continent of Bugaria, which is populated entirely by arthropods. Bugaria is also set in the human house's backyard, given the presence of many human objects like giant soda cans, cardboard boxes, and etc. Furthermore, Lost Sands were shown to be set in an ordinary sandbox, while the Rubber Prison is made of car tire, and Metal Island is made of a hubcap. The humans themselves do not appear, and it's implied that [[spoiler:they went extinct after the [[AfterTheEnd mysterious cataclysm]], the same one that gave bugs the sapience]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/Santo Bugito'' is Klasky Csupo's CBS series about a southern border town where 64 million insects live.

* This is one of the central tropes of ''Literature/TheMouseWatch'', a SequelSeries to ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''. The titular team is a worldwide HeroesRUs organization of mice who protect both the human and animal worlds while taking care to maintain TheMasquerade and stay unseen.

* ''Fievel's Playland'' at Ride/UniversalStudios, based on the ''WesternAnimaiton/AnAmericanTail'' franchise, is a playground designed entirely from a mouse's point of view.

** One has to wonder what those mice would think if, in this universe, God made only humans in his image and favours them over other species—including the mice themselves. Probably best not to dwell on it.

* ''Series/{{Portlandia}}'' has a skit about a trio of rats living in Portland voiced by Fred and Carrie.

* ''Fievel's Playland'' at Ride/UniversalStudios is a playground designed entirely from a mouse's point of view.

* ''VideoGame/BugFablesTheEverlastingSapling'' is set in the continent of Bugaria, which is populated entirely by arthropods. It's implied that Bugaria is located in the human world, given the presence of things like giant soda pop cans.

* ''Anime/TwilightOfTheCockroaches'' revolves around a human-like society of cockroaches living in the shabby apartment of a depressed bachelor, only for their world to be turned upside-down when their "god" meets a girl who decides the filth and bugs have got to go.

* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', films and series. Theirs comes complete with animal {{Expy}}s of actual human historical figures, and the mice themselves are essentially metaphors for [[FantasticRacism oppressed minorities]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', films and series. Theirs comes complete with animal {{Expy}}s of actual human historical figures, and the mice themselves are essentially metaphors for [[FantasticRacism oppressed minorities]].

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* ''VideoGame/BugFablesTheEverlastingSapling'' is set in the continent of Bugaria, which is populated entirely by arthropods. It's implied that Bugaria is located in the human world, given the presence of things like giant soda pop cans.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bugdom}}'' you take control of a rolly polly, travelling across the lands rescuing captured insects. In some levels giant feet belonging to humans come down from the sky threatening to squish you.