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These animals are a notch higher than the Nearly-Normal Animal, Speech-Impaired Animal, and Talking Animal, but not quite Civilized Animals. They're Partially-Civilized Animals!

Like the Nearly-Normal Animal, Speech-Impaired Animal, and Talking Animal, the Partially-Civilized Animal 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 walking on two legs or 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 Civilized Animal, they may wear a few accessories or articles of clothing (often in pantless fashion) and often have some sort of Mouse World.

Partially-Civilized Animals 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 Real Life. Like Nearly-Normal Animal, Speech-Impaired Animal, and Talking Animal birds, Partially-Civilized Animal birds can have Feather Fingers, but their wings have to look completely like wings.

Unlike the Nearly-Normal Animal, Speech-Impaired Animal, and Talking Animal, Partially-Civilized Animals exhibit some form of civilized manner, usually to a lesser degree than the Civilized Animal, and often have some form of Mouse World. Unlike the Civilized Animal, 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.

This is between the Civilized Animal and the Nearly-Normal Animal, Speech-Impaired Animal, and Talking Animal on the Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism.


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  • Two Brothers Under the Sun: Being a crossover between Kipling's The Jungle Book and the Lion King, the author tries to portray the Bukuvu Jungle as close as an ecosystem can get to resembling an actual state (albeit a decentralized, tribalistic one) with its own laws while still more or less being the ecosystem it's based on. The royal elephant family is clearly in charge but needs to delegate power to the local leaders and kings to maintain things under control; All animals have "jobs" they are supposed to perform to maintain the Great Circle; The animals interact with each other in complex ways such as using secret passwords and oath-taking; They have organized events such as the Water Truce and Great Migrations; They can solve problems creatively like herbivores stockpiling food in hay piles through the Dry Season and large animals clearing sections of forest to make more pasture for the herds. But when you look past all these human-like elements, you still have a recognizable African jungle ecosystem that wouldn't be out of place in an episode of The Lion Guard.

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  • The canines in Wurr at first seem like Talking Animals... then we find out that the dogs are in the Bronze Age.

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