History Main / PartiallyCivilizedAnimal

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* ''Literature/WarriorCats'' is a bit hard to put on the SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism, but most probably this level. They're normal domestic cats living in an ordinary human world (well, normal aside from the fact that they can talk to each other and [[CatsHaveNineLives some can get nine lives]]), but they have their own society of four Clans in the forest with a firmly structured ranking order and rules, have a religion, and use healing herbs.

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* Dog from ''WesternAnimation/WordWorld'' is a non-talking, four-legged dog, but he owns a house.
** Most other four-legged residents, including Elephant and Tiger, belong in this trope, too.

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* The rats in ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}''
* The penguins in ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeet''
* The dogs in ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven''

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* Parodied in ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'', with a series of recurring sketches involving a farmer who acts like and talks to his horse as if it was one of these. In fact, it's simply a Not At All Civilized Animal (i.e. just a regular horse), but this doesn't stop the farmer from reacting with a violent tantrum whenever the horse responds to his overtures with nothing but uncomprehending disinterest.

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* Red XIII from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' walks on four legs and generally acts like the ...[[BuffySpeak pumadogthing]] he is, but at the same time [[TalkingAnimal able to talk]], [[IntellectualAnimal extremely intelligent]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and wears a hair decoration]].

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* The canines in ''WebComic/{{Wurr}}'' at first seem like {{Talking Animal}}s... then we find out that the dogs are in the Bronze Age.

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* Dog from ''WesternAnimation/WordWorld'' is a non-talking, four-legged dog, but he owns a house.
** Most other four-legged residents, including Elephant and Tiger, belong in this trope, too.

* Guts, the Mankanshoku family dog, in ''Anime/KillLaKill'' is a nonspeaking variant.

* The dinosaurs in ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'', particularly Arlo's family of farming ''Apatosaurus'' and the ''TRex'' who act like cattle ranchers.

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* The animals in WelkinWeasels.

* The Bunny Children from ''EpicMickey'' are this, even though OswaldTheLuckyRabbit (their father) and Ortensia [[InterspeciesRomance the]] ''[[InterspeciesRomance cat]]'' (their mother) are full-fledged {{Funny Animal}}s.

* The owls in the ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheGuardiansTheOwlsOfGahoole''

These animals are a notch higher than the NearlyNormalAnimal, SpeechImpairedAnimal, and TalkingAnimal, but not quite {{Civilized Animal}}s. They're {{Partially Civilized Animal}}s!

Like the NearlyNormalAnimal, SpeechImpairedAnimal, and TalkingAnimal, the PartiallyCivilizedAnimal is very much an animal when it comes to thought processes, personality, instincts, priorities, and motivations. They are more frequently depicted as just walking on four legs than on [[FourLegsGoodTwoLegsBetter walking on two legs]] or [[RunningOnAllFours walking both ways]]. Quite a few of them can walk on two legs as well they can on four legs, but they still normally walk on all fours. Like the CivilizedAnimal, they may wear a few accessories or articles of clothing (often in pantless fashion) and often have some sort of MouseWorld.

{{Partially Civilized Animal}}s can make human-like arm and hand gestures and many can grasp objects as if they have opposable thumbs. Some are bipedal even if their species isn't naturally so, but many others are depicted as staying on four legs if they are a four-legged animal in RealLife. Like NearlyNormalAnimal, SpeechImpairedAnimal, and TalkingAnimal birds, PartiallyCivilizedAnimal birds can have FeatherFingers, but their wings have to look completely like wings.

Unlike the NearlyNormalAnimal, SpeechImpairedAnimal, and TalkingAnimal, {{Partially Civilized Animal}}s exhibit some form of civilized manner, usually to a lesser degree than the CivilizedAnimal, and often have some form of MouseWorld. Unlike the CivilizedAnimal, the majority of the mannerisms are that of the animal and they are more likely to be four-legged than two legged if they are naturally four legged.

* ''Literature/WarriorCats'' is a bit hard to put on the SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism, but most probably this level.

* ''WesternAnimation/BuBumLaStradaVersoCasa'': Jack the bulldog. Due to being a military dog trained by the American army, he has a lot of knowledge about military weapons and tactics (like being able to identify any weapon he sees) and, as the series finale shows, can even operate a tank. Other than that however, he is still very much a dog who can only talk in AnimalTalk and walks on all fours.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'': Just like in the movie, the Pride Lands seem to be about as close as an ecosystem can get to resembling a monarchy with law while still more or less being the ecosystem it's based on. The royal lion family is clearly in charge of everything. All animals have "jobs" they are supposed to perform to maintain the Circle of Life such as crocodiles keeping fish populations in check and hyenas eating what other predators leave behind. The animals have organized events like funerals and concerts and many can be seen playing together. On top of all that, the show even has a justice force in the Lion Guard who's job is to maintain peace, save animals from disasters, and deal with animals upsetting the Circle of Life. But when you look past all these human-like elements, you still more or less have an African savanna ecosystem. Predators hunt prey animals, herbivores migrate and graze, many animals steal from and fight with others, and visually the animals have very little anthropomorphism beyond their faces.

* ''ShaunTheSheep'' and his flock in the series of that name. (But [[AnthropomorphicShift not]] in ''WallaceAndGromit: WesternAnimation/ACloseShave'').

* Okku the Bear-King in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2: Mask of the Betrayer'' is a bear telthor[[note]]see the ''Unapproachable East'' {{splat}}book[[/note]]. He can wax philosophic with the best of them, but he's still a bear.

* The animals from ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' and its spin-offs have the animals using crude tools, wearing simple clothes and occasionally going bipedal. But there is no doubt that they are animals, and they can't speak with humans.

* Many animals from ''ZigAndSharko''.

* The peguins in ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeet''

* The animals in ''Main/AnimalLand'' is this trope and thanks to the main character Tarouza, they are on the way to become CivilizedAnimal.