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Intelligent Gerbil
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A phrase coined by Sci-Fi author Robert J. Sawyer, describing a certain way of characterizing extraterrestrial races. Take a terrestrial animal, make it anthropomorphic, bipedal, and sapient, but rather than deriving their behavior from humans with the occasional Furry Reminder, instead derive the majority of its characterization and culture from the terrestrial animal's behavior. Sawyer's hypothetical/satirical Intelligent Gerbils live in cities powered by erudite individuals running around in big wheels; they take water from tubes coming out of the walls and sleep in piles of cedar chips. Could be regarded as the animal version of Rubber-Forehead Aliens, except when the non-human psychology clause of Starfish Aliens kicks in. Distinct from Alien Animals in the sense that they're not literally a terrestrial animal, but are obviously inspired by one. Compare Bee People. A subtrope of Beast Man, and related to Funny Animal, Civilized Animal, and the Planet of Hats. These mainly rely on Animal Stereotypes but also usually end up looking like Humanoid Aliens, for obvious reasons. For specific varieties, see Cat Folk, Lizard Folk, Fish People, Ursine Aliens, Pig People, Space Monkeys, ad infinitum. Compare Uplifted Animal, which may be used as a justified version of this. Evolutionary Levels are often implied — apparently, if you want sapience, intelligence and organised society, they always come with two arms, two legs and an upright body plan. For an interesting analysis and criticism of this trope, see this Tetrapod Zoology post. Not to be confused with Resourceful Rodent and other works featuring actual sapient earth-native gerbils (though if you need one of those, talk to Beta and she can help you out). |
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Astro Boy features a race of aliens resembling grasshoppers whose social structure is somewhat extrapolated from grasshopper behavior. For example, it's perfectly legal for them to fight to the death over a mate. | |
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Bas-Lag Cycle: The bird-like garuda from Perdido Street Station. Most of Miéville's "Xenians" seem to fit this trope to some extent. The hotchi (hedgehogs), the vodyanoi (frogs), the grindylow (eels), the Weavers (spiders) and the beetle men (guess) are just a few examples that spring immediately to mind. | |
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Heralds of Valdemar has the hertasi (Lizard Folk) and tervardi (Bird People) as full-fledged examples. Dyheli (based on elk) and kyree (a sort of cross between wolves and cheetahs) are weaker examples, but still fit here: they're as intelligent as any human and have complex cultures that work with their animal shapes, but they aren't bipedal. However, all of these are created species, mostly created by a single human mage. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Ken Penders' The Lara-Su Chronicles depicts the echidnas as humanoid aliens known as Echyd'nya. | |
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Hawk's feathered prople from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century are descended from Earth birds. | |
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Justice League of America: Yazz, the team mascot of Gerard Jones's late-90s run, is a bright blue Pteranodon in a vest. | |
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Doctor Who Expanded Universe: Eighth Doctor Adventures: The tigers in The Year of Intelligent Tigers. They're just intelligent tigers who have Bizarre Alien Biology, lay eggs, and have two opposable thumbs on each paw. Also, some of them can speak English to a degree and have their own complete language, which the Doctor learns. Other than the thumbs, they apparently look just like tigers. (It's intended as a parallel to the fact the Doctor is a Human Alien, though.) The denizens of Dogworld in Mad Dogs and Englishmen are, well... dogs with hands◊. The Pakhar are hamsters. |
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Buck Rogers has Tiger Men from Mars. And a single guy with tiger stripe tattoos named Tiger Man in the 1970's TV series. | |
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The seranith in Archipelago look like fluffy, roughly man-sized raptor dinosaurs with a Tuft of Head Fur. They're matriarchal, have a very complex language rendered as dense circular designs, per Word of God can't swim and need a purpose in life (they're strongly implied to have been engineered as an entire race of Battle Butlers and most of those who appear in the story are, in fact, employed as such). | |
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Darkwing Duck has an episode with intelligent alien cows. | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), Sonic the Hedgehog is an alien from another planet who is clearly a sentient version of a hedgehog. Other members of the planet, such as Longclaw the Owl, the Echidna Tribe, and Miles "Tails" Prower the fox, are also sapient versions of Earth animals. | |
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Hamster's Paradise has an interesting variant with the Harmsters, which are not exactly aliens but descendants of introduced hamsters to an alien planet. The Harmsters' society revolves all around aggression, lack of empathy and most notably cannibalism: all traits displayed by hamsters (as opposed to more social and empathetic rodents such as pet rats) but especially their genocidal, fascist, and utterly barbaric society. | |
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Starfire: The Khanate of Orion is another touchy cat-race. | |
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Talislanta: The Aeriad, Ferrans, Gryphs, Imrians, Jaka, Saurans, and Stryx are Intelligent Gerbil songbirds, rats, hawks, fish, panthers, lizards, and vultures, respectively. | |
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tinyraygun: The galaxy is populated by these. The Leviks, for example, are long-eared cats with short tails, with the ones from the mountain regions even sporting antlers. | |
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World of Warcraft: Semi-intelligent animals pop up in various forms, such as the raptors who have been known to ornament their bodies with feathers, seem to have a vague hierarchical society and are dexterous enough to unlock and open doors with their little foreclaws. | |
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Ben 10: Alien Force has even more, such as Big Chill (moth man), Jetray (manta ray that can 'swim' in the air) and Humungasaur (dinosaur). Though the one with truly animal-like behavior is Spidermonkey, who acts hyper and chimp-like. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The two part episode, "Defenders of Peace", has the Lurmen. An alien race that look exactly like Lemurs, whose staunch pacifism nearly gets them exterminated when the Separatists decide to test a new weapon on them and their elder refuses to fight back even in self-defense. | |
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Green Lantern: Ch'p ("Chip") is a Green Lantern from a race of raccoon/chipmunk hybrids. He is later succeeded by a member of the same race named B'dg ("Badge"). | |
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Monty the Dinosaur: Monty is a dinosaur who's capable of speech. He states in his debut that all dinosaurs were capable of speech, but there were no humans around in those days to hear them. | |
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The Four Horsemen Universe: A common format for aliens. The biggest example is the Besquith, which resemble a man-sized wolf/wolverine/bear mashup and are pack-oriented, vicious combatants who often eat what they kill. | |
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The Voyage of the Space Beagle has a cat-like alien called Coeurl (which has since appeared in other media) and telepathic alien birds called Riim. | |
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Red Dwarf: The Cat is a humanoid who evolved from a cat that lived three million years before the show's present. Parallel universes introduce a Dog and a Rat with parallel backstories. The RPG takes it even further, introducing evolved rabbits, iguanas, and mice on top of the aforementioned races. |
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Hayven Celestia: Most sapient species resemble anthropomorphized Earth animals to some extent. Geroo partially resemble ferrets and kangaroos, while ringels look a lot like scrawny raccoons. | |
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Shakara: The Teknosaurs are spacefaring cyborg dinosaurs whose behavior is much like real dinosaurs: the carnivores are happy to eat their opponents, for instance. | |
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While reptiles in later editions, kobolds in the Basic/Expert/etc version of Dungeons & Dragons are often portrayed as Intelligent Gerbil versions of evil dog-people, with yapping voices and wagging tails, although their appearance becomes much more lizardlike over time. | |
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Phule's Company: All of the major alien races can be described thusly: cats, slugs, lizards, and warthogs (just not when Phule himself is around). He even chews out Beeker, one of the few people he really has a personal relationship with, for using such terms. | |
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Marco & the Galaxy Dragon has several aliens which resemble anthropomorphic animals. Dosgoro the anthropomorphic alligator is the most prominent example, and there’s also Collection Joe, who resembles a mouse. | |
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Spider-Man Unlimited: The Bestials are Beast Folk engineered by the High Evolutionary from Earth animals. | |
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Sector General: James White uses this in some of his stories. Hospital Station: "The Trouble with Emily": The titular character is essentially a brontosaurus (she's called Emily by the engineers who maintain her living area, especially the crew of the tractor beams that keep her from thrashing around if she becomes agitated). "Outpatient" features the staff's first encounter with the Ians, who reappear in Star Surgeon, in the form of a youngster rescued from a wrecked alien hospital ship. The Ians as a species resemble giant dragonflies as adults; the patient is in chrysalis form, which seriously confuses the staff until Conway works out why the detected vital signs are so messed up (they're getting two sets, one from the "caterpillar" form that's being sloughed off, one from the adult stage). The patient's actual original medical condition is that it can't break out of its chrysalis on its own and thus needs some minor but time-critical surgery. Ambulance Ship: In "Quarantine", a youngster belonging to an unknown species is rescued from a wrecked spaceship. The medical staff find out the hard way that the new species' physiology is essentially like that of skunks, though with a mild poisonous effect rather than a bad smell. In "Spacebird", the titular ambulance ship is called to respond to what appears to be large alien bird buried in space. It is covered by alien barnacles. It develops that the barnacles are intelligent, and like real barnacles, use mobile life forms as transportation to carry themselves around. They'd deliberately put themselves into suspended animation after launching the bird as a spaceship. |
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Atlas Reactor: Done literally with Isadora (short for "Isadoryble"), as she's a hamster with a chunk of Reactor stuck in her head which gave her an IQ of 6,000 - and a desire to Take Over the World. | |
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Sword of the Stars. The Hivers, Liir, Tarka, Zuul and Morrigi are Intelligent Gerbil ants, dolphins, crocodile/ape hybrids, tasmanian devils, and dragon/crow/magpies, respectively. | |
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Mass Effect: Notably averted, subverted, and played with. Turians are like a bizarre cross between a Velociraptor, various insects, and birds, but are not any more violent than humans, and can be very nice people. Krogan are probably the closest thing to playing this trope straight, as they are something of a cross between a T. rex and a snapping turtle, and are a definitely Proud Warrior Race. Salarians, a race of Smart Guys, are vaguely amphibian, but have numerous characteristics that lead some Protheans to mistake them for lizards, since Javik mentions they used to eat flies and lick their eyeballs in his Cycle. | |
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Footfall: The Fithp bear a strong resemblance, both physically and with their "herd" culture, to elephants. This is lampshaded when the Fithp observe actual elephants in Africa and wonder why they hadn't become the dominant species on Earth. | |
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Traveller: Aslan are aliens who roughly resemble lions. They generally behave more like the more warlike tribes among humans than like lions. They have a sense of tribal cohesion, hierarchy, a stern honor code, and so on. Canon actually says right out that they have a lot in common with humans. Vargr were genetically engineered from Earth wolves to be sapient and humanoid. They're for the most part ferocious, fractious raiders, pirates and barbarians. |
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Mystara setting, including Savage Coast, is full of them. Aside of more or less standard races there are: Aranea (scheming and crafty sorcerous were-spider people), Lupins (canine humanoids, with teamworking/Lawful inclinations), Rakasta (proud, warlike Cat Folk), Tortles (bipedal turtles), Gurrash (big brutal crocodile-humanoids), wallaras (stealthy chameleon-men), and Caymars (small agile lizard kin). | |
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Star Trek: While the series tends to avoid this trope for the most part, the Xindi from Star Trek: Enterprise consist of six different species resembling different kinds of animals: There are the Reptilians, the Insectoids, the extinct Avians, the Arboreals (resembling sloths), the Aquatics (resembling whales or large fish) and the Primates (resembling humans, and thus simply Rubber Fore Head Aliens). | |
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Star Trek (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_81b5af17 | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_81b5af17 | comment |
Yakitori: Soldiers of Misfortune. The members of the Trade Federation are aliens who take the form of cats, horses, rats, frogs and ostriches, in contrast to the human protagonists. | |
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Yakitori Soldiers Of Misfortune | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_85279c9c | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_85279c9c | comment |
In The Fermi Paradox, dolphins or dinosaurs can evolve to be the dominant species on Earth rather than humans, and other species such as cats can potentially evolve to be the new dominant species if the current one ends up dying out. This also applies to alien species, with creatures heavily resembling Earth animals such as scorpions evolving to rule the ruins the previous race left behind. | |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_8fda7950 | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_8fda7950 | comment |
Known Space: The Kzin are sometimes described as resembling eight-foot humanoid cats. A more detailed description weakens the resemblance considerably, what with hairless tails, ferret-like body (with a lattice of struts instead of a ribcage), ribbed parasol-like ears, and other distinctions. Averted by most of the rest of the aliens. Some are very strange indeed, but with their evolutionary processes given a lot of thought. The Kzin themselves were one of the first alien species introduced, and Early-Installment Weirdness is consequently in play. | |
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Known Space | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_903bcf3e | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_903bcf3e | comment |
World Tree (RPG): While the majority of the Prime races are humanoid Beast Men, two are sapient animals with no physical concessions to the humanoid form: the Sleeth, amoral, intelligent cats devoted to hunting, and the Zi Ri, tiny ageless Feathered Dragons. Some non-Prime species also fit this trope; the Akkamagga, for instance, are intelligent six-limbed lizards | |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_90c73dda | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_90c73dda | comment |
Animorphs: The Pemalites (and their android creations, the Chee) are dog-like in both appearance and attitude. Inverted, however: it turns out that domesticated dogs were actually created when the Chee put the Pemalites essence/souls into wolves. Downplayed with Andalites. They evolved from (well, technically still are) grazing, herd-based ungulates, so they are instinctually uncomfortable in enclosed spaces. But that's really the full extent of the "horse stuff" in their culture. |
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Animorphs | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_986e857e | comment |
Ben 10: Despite having many differences, Vulpimancers are compared to dogs and act like such, not even being able to talk even when it's Ben assuming their form as Wildmutt. Their sentience is only confirmed by their inclusion in the Omnitrix, which only collects DNA from sapient species. The Loboans are space wolves from a planet themed around werewolf horror movies. Stinkfly is a giant insect. Ripjaws is a fish man. Ben 10: Alien Force has even more, such as Big Chill (moth man), Jetray (manta ray that can 'swim' in the air) and Humungasaur (dinosaur). Though the one with truly animal-like behavior is Spidermonkey, who acts hyper and chimp-like. Ben 10: Omniverse has Crashhopper (grasshopper), Bullfrag (frog), Astrodactyl (pterosaur), Ball Weevil (insect), Kickin' Hawk (bird of prey), Molestache (Mole...apparently) and Walkatrout (fish). |
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Ben 10 | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_9a7a61a | comment |
Sonic the Comic: An alien race consists of anthropomorphic dinosaurs in spacesuits. | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_9a7a61a | featureApplicability |
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Sonic the Comic (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_9a7a61a | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_a183d57f | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_a183d57f | comment |
Futurama: Occasionally featured, with the most prominent being the Hyper-chicken. But due to the Sci-Fi Kitchen Sink nature of the show, it's hard to tell whether most of them are actual aliens or just genetically enhanced animals. | |
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Futurama | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_a34863aa | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_a34863aa | comment |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Triceratons are an alien race resembling anthropomorphic Triceratops. In some continuities they're revealed to actually be descended from triceratops, mutated into an anthropomorphic form by Utrom experiments with the series' trademark Mutagenic Goo. | |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_a73c4731 | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_a73c4731 | comment |
The Meoms of Goodbye Strangers are aliens from another dimension that look just like cats, except they have weirdly-shaped bodies and usually have a few body parts that are missing or they have too many of and they also come in impossible colors. | |
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Goodbye Strangers (Website) | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_a825da3e | comment |
Magic: The Gathering has a lot of these, including catfolk, lizards, elephants and insects as just a few examples. These are typically given the same creature type as their animalistic counterparts (unlike humans, dwarves, elves, goblins and the like, who get unique ones) and have personalities derived from their base animals' cultural associations — elephant people are stubborn and fastidious, dog people steadfast and loyal, insect people highly colonial, and so on. | |
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Magic: The Gathering (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_a9804feb | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_a9804feb | comment |
Alliance/Union universe has a few examples: In the Chanur Novels, the Hani species are essentially terrestrial lions given intelligence and stood on their hind legs. The way that the biological imperatives of a pride-grouping species would impact a sapient culture are shown, without rubbing it in the reader's face. It's "just" background. In The Faded Sun trilogy, the Regul seemed to bear a lot of resemblance to terrestrial hippopotamuses. And the dusei (singular "dus"), the companion animals of the Mri, were Ursine Aliens. |
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Alliance/Union | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_aa639666 | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_aa639666 | comment |
Out of the Silent Planet: The hrossa are quite like sapient seals, only their planet's lighter gravity has made them taller and thinner. This resemblance to Earth animals makes Ransom uncertain and awkward when he sees the intelligence in their eyes and tries to talk to them through panicked gestures. | |
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Out of the Silent Planet | hasFeature |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_aa639666 | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_aa905d7 | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_aa905d7 | comment |
The Sun at Night has Laika, a dog from space who can speak human languages, and wears a high-tech suit with a blaster mounted on its back. | |
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The Sun At Night (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_aa905d7 | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_ac4bd9bd | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_ac4bd9bd | comment |
Into the Looking Glass: The first novel features the Mreee (pronounced the way a cat yowls when you stomp its tail) who look like three-foot tall anthropomorphic house cats whose native language sounds like "cats stuck in a barrel." They subvert the "Proud Warrior Cat Folk" thing, as they are a Slave Race of the "Dreen" (or T! CH! R! as they call them- roughly translated, that means "the masters".) Later books in the series introduce the Cheerick, who are almost literally intelligent gerbils. One character describes them as looking like six-foot-tall, spear-wielding hamsters, to which another character replies, "They don't really look like hamsters. More like chinchillas." |
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Into the Looking Glass | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_adb7e728 | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_adb7e728 | comment |
In The Faded Sun trilogy, the Regul seemed to bear a lot of resemblance to terrestrial hippopotamuses. And the dusei (singular "dus"), the companion animals of the Mri, were Ursine Aliens. | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_adb7e728 | featureApplicability |
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The Faded Sun | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_addcfd93 | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_addcfd93 | comment |
Giant Robot Warrior Maintenance Crew: One member of the titular crew is a human-sized brown creature that looks like a badger. | |
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Giant Robot Warrior Maintenance Crew (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_addcfd93 | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_aedc983a | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_aedc983a | comment |
Wing Commander: The Kilrathi are a race of evil tiger-people. | |
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Wing Commander (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_aedc983a | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_b4967d43 | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_b4967d43 | comment |
Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Ken Penders' The Lara-Su Chronicles depicts the echidnas as humanoid aliens known as Echyd'nya. Sonic the Comic: An alien race consists of anthropomorphic dinosaurs in spacesuits. |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_b4967d43 | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_b6495f6f | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_b6495f6f | comment |
Adastra (2018). The people from Adastra are literally anthropomorphic wolves and their culture is heavily inspired by the romans. There's also anthropomorphic cat-looking and dog-looking aliens. | |
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Adastra (2018) (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_b6495f6f | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_ba3d43bd | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_ba3d43bd | comment |
In Summer in Orcus, the intelligent birds of Orcus have a society which bears a considerable resemblance to Regency England, but with details that reflect the fact that they're birds. | |
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Summer in Orcus | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_bb9e8e93 | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_bb9e8e93 | comment |
In the Chanur Novels, the Hani species are essentially terrestrial lions given intelligence and stood on their hind legs. The way that the biological imperatives of a pride-grouping species would impact a sapient culture are shown, without rubbing it in the reader's face. It's "just" background. | |
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Chanur Novels | hasFeature |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_bb9e8e93 | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_bcadd7cb | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_bcadd7cb | comment |
Warhammer 40,000: The Jokaero are orangutan-like aliens with an innate knack for building incredibly advanced technology with scraps of damaged machinery, but possess no real language or indication of higher thought beyond that knack. The Imperium Inquisition makes use of them to customize their weaponry and other equipment. The Tau are evolved from three-toed grazing animals, their allies the Kroot from birds, and the Vespid from insects. All are more-or-less Humanoid Aliens. Loxatl are essentially sapient monitor lizards. |
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Warhammer 40,000 (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_be492827 | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_be492827 | comment |
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes: The Luminoth are a race of giant anthropomorphic moth-people that seem to have an obsession with light. | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_be492827 | featureApplicability |
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Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_be492827 | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_c0d0d316 | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_c0d0d316 | comment |
The RPG takes it even further, introducing evolved rabbits, iguanas, and mice on top of the aforementioned races. | |
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Red Dwarf (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_c0d0d316 | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_c25b78e4 | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_c25b78e4 | comment |
Albion: The Iskai look like anthropomorphic cats that besides their appearance, resemble humans a lot, at first glance. On second glance, you realize that not only are they completely alien, but have some very bizarre, logic defying traits. This is even lampshaded at one point. | |
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Albion (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_c3e4d044 | comment |
Star Fleet Battles: Lyrans (lynxes). The Kzinti are already official in-universe, giving two "cat-people" races (who hate each other). | |
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Star Fleet Battles (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_c3e4d044 | |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
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Doctor Who has several examples: the Judoon are rhinos (who are sapient, but not necessarily intelligent), the Tritovores are flies, etc. Occasionally, there's some alien traits for the aliens: Vespiforms are wasps and shapeshifters, the Cheetah People are cheetahs and natural teleporters, the Foamasi are chameleons and are immune from radiation and can compress themselves into human suits. | |
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Doctor Who | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_c487221e | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_c487221e | comment |
Men in Black: While most creatures have truly alien-looking alien designs, the main recurring antagonists, the Bugs, are a race of space cockroaches. | |
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Men in Black | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_c6482e0b | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_c6482e0b | comment |
Journey into Space: In Journey to the Moon / Operation Luna, the Time Traveller resembles a bipedal armadillo with a blue and red face, which Mitch compares to that of a mandrill. Doc estimates that he is seven foot tall. However, Jet says nine feet and Mitch says twelve feet. | |
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Journey into Space (Radio) | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_c9003ac6 | comment |
Superboy and the Ravers: Dino-Mite is an anthropomorphic dinosaur from an entire race of such aliens. | |
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Superboy and the Ravers (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_c9003ac6 | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_c9b8f0f8 | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_c9b8f0f8 | comment |
Space Captain Smith includes the Ghasts, a fascist species of mansize army ants; Beetle People, whose culture revolves around collecting and rolling dung; and most of all the Yull, 6-foot lemmings who regard suicide as the highest virtue, and hence follow a samurai honour code taken to a ludicrous extreme. Admittedly, they are comedies. | |
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Space Captain Smith | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
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Last Res0rt runs on this trope and plays it seriously enough to pull it off; virtually every nonhuman in the series is a furry alien of some kind. It helps that the aliens involved map to multiple critters (Talmi, for instance, seem to be a cat / kangaroo mix) as opposed to just pulling straight. And in addition to the Talmi: Anyr are often dubbed horses, but have large donkey-like ears, unicorn tails, and parrot feet. Vidians look roughly like Kirin, except when they look more like Eastern Dragons. Zillans look like nothing so much as bipedal crocodiles. Among the unnamed species (some named on the fan wiki), we have four-armed rabbits, tentacle-haired felines ("Sea Lions", perhaps?), and we never have been given a proper name for Addy's species (or for her Efreet in the Bottle) — she looks like a simple (albeit very pink) lion centaur, but she has leopard spots going down her back as well. |
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Last Res0rt (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
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Space Pirate Mito has anthropomorphic terra-based animals as aliens or galactic citizens as (generally) lower classes to the humanoids, often as background characters, pirate crews, and servant/slave races. | |
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Space Pirate Mito | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
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In Myriad Song Towsers look like dogs with crystals in their fur, Troodons resemble the dinosaurs they're named after, Rhax males are basically giant spiders (and not actually intelligent), Ishato look a lot like octopi, while Elvers seem to be some cross between assorted eels and seals. | |
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Myriad Song (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_cfd91008 | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
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Eighth Doctor Adventures: The tigers in The Year of Intelligent Tigers. They're just intelligent tigers who have Bizarre Alien Biology, lay eggs, and have two opposable thumbs on each paw. Also, some of them can speak English to a degree and have their own complete language, which the Doctor learns. Other than the thumbs, they apparently look just like tigers. (It's intended as a parallel to the fact the Doctor is a Human Alien, though.) | |
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Eighth Doctor Adventures | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
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Star Trek: The Animated Series features the Kzinti and the Caitians, two species of Cat Folk, as well as the Aurelians and the Skorr, two species of winged bird people. | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_d131c1e9 | featureApplicability |
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Star Trek: The Animated Series | hasFeature |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_d131c1e9 | |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
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The Ovions and Borays from the original Battlestar Galactica are races of insect people and pig people, respectively, and their cultures reflect this. | |
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Battlestar Galactica (1978) | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
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Uplift: While most aliens in the setting are of the starfish variety, there are some that resemble Earth animals. Pila are Ursine Aliens. Soro are a bit like therapod dinosaurs. Synthians look like large raccoons without tails. Tytlal are pretty much otters capable of speech. And the Tytlal's patrons, the Tymbrimi, are described as having a slightly vulpine appearance, and the personality of a mythological Kitsune, though they're also the most anthropomorphic aliens in the setting, approaching Rubber-Forehead Alien levels with application of their minor shapeshifting abilities. | |
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Uplift | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_d6f9b009 | comment |
The Bolt Chronicles: The outer-space visitors in "The Spaceship" are clearly modeled after Funny Animal dogs. Given that they're bipedal and act like humans, they also qualify as Humanoid Aliens. | |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_d803ecde | comment |
Ben 10: Omniverse has Crashhopper (grasshopper), Bullfrag (frog), Astrodactyl (pterosaur), Ball Weevil (insect), Kickin' Hawk (bird of prey), Molestache (Mole...apparently) and Walkatrout (fish). | |
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Ben 10: Omniverse | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_d930a4c7 | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_d930a4c7 | comment |
Spelljammer had nothing but these for races, except for Scro, who fill the Monster Adventurers slot. Some fit this trope more accurately than others; the xixchil, biological Mad Scientist mantis-people, are notorious for their incredibly individualistic social mentality, and whilst they try to avoid it, sexual cannibalism is still a very real risk in their mating rituals — and the race keeps a sustainable population because, upon hatching, the strongest hatchling will devour the rest of its clutch, save maybe for one or, very rarely, two siblings of equivalent strength. | |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_dacffea0 | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_dacffea0 | comment |
Chakona Space has the Caitians (it was originally a Star Trek Fan Fic), Voxxans, and Rakshani (Proud Warrior Race Guy, also possibly Terran semantic imperialism because Rakshasa were oriental cat-demons and D&D monsters before they were aliens), but also more alien aliens. | |
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Chakona Space | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_dc22f587 | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_dc22f587 | comment |
Tales of Kaimere: Three of the prominent non-humanoid sophonts species on Kaimere are justified examples as they don't just look like Earth animals, they are the descendants of Earth animals harvested from Earth and replicated in a specific region on Kaimere. They are the Notzokidue, flightless bipedal pterosaurs; the Manephaunts, sea-faring and elpehant-like dwarf Gomphotheres; and the Skraa'aae, intelligent troodonts that can fluently speak human languages from both Kaimere and Earth. | |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_dd352852 | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_dd352852 | comment |
Noon Universe: The lizard-like Tagorians. Also subverted with the Headies/Golovans who look kinda like dogs (with very large heads), and indeed apparently descended from some sort of alien dogs (it's commonly assumed that they mutated thanks to the fallout of a nuclear war), but their psychology doesn't have much to do with any of the stereotypical dog-like characteristics; it's just thoroughly inhuman (to wit, they are mistrustful of technology, highly enigmatic, seemingly unemotional and above all practice evolutionary pragmatism on an apparently everyday basis; the latter in particular definitely overrides any dog-like loyalty they might have had). | |
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Noon Universe | hasFeature |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_e081af79 | comment |
The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!: The Nemesites are giant butterfly people. Their culture does not appear to be butterfly-like, however. | |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
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Stellaris lets you create your own alien race and empire from scratch, and the options range from Earth humans and Rubber-Forehead Aliens on one end to Starfish Aliens (including sentient plants and fungi) on the other. In between, there are numerous options for customizing your species based on real-world Earth animals, from foxes to butterflies to peacocks, though they're mostly cosmetic given that you set the species' traits separately. A gecko-based species◊ has become particularly iconic within the fandom, associated with the genocidal Fanatic Purifiers that wish to purge the galaxy of all other alien species/xeno filth. If you have Cities: Skylines installed, one of the options is Chirpy, the mascot of that game's Twitter knockoff Chirper. This is followed to the spirit if not to the letter by the "lithoid" class, the majority of which consists of anthropomorphizations of various types of rocks and minerals found on earth. |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
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Laszlo Hadron and the Wargod's Tomb: Chief engineer Emara Larroe is a member of the species called the Suura, whihc are described as "otter-like". | |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_e5c5bc22 | comment |
GURPS: GURPS Space allows alien designs from intelligent gerbils (literally if you wish) to "plasma life". GURPS Bio-Tech has intelligent gerbils called Tek-Rats. |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_e68decb8 | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_e68decb8 | comment |
Star Control: Some alien species fit this trope: The first game has the Ilwrath (spiders), the Mycon (mushrooms), the Shofixti (marsupials), the Spathi (shellfish), the Ur-Quan (centipedes), and the Yehat (pterodactyls) The second game adds the Dnyarri (toads), the Druuge (pigs), the Melnorme (literal Starfish Aliens), the Orz (fish, or so they want you to think), the Pkunk (toucans), the Supox (plants), the Thraddash (rhinos), and the Burvixese (turtles, mentioned only). The third game introduces the Doog (dogs, obviously), the Lk (more mushrooms), the Owa (jellyfish), the Ploxis (rats), and the Vyro-Ingo (crustaceans). |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_e7cd412d | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_e7cd412d | comment |
Burning Wheel: The Roden are pretty much intelligent human-sized anthropomorphic rodents who divide themselves into Country Mice (kind of vegetarian Amish types who look like field-mice) and City Mice (stereotypical criminal rat-person, with Pinky and the Brain included as possible life paths) with murderous cultists and albino mystics thrown in for good measure. | |
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Intelligent Gerbil / int_e7f260e5 | type |
Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_e7f260e5 | comment |
Lilo & Stitch: Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel is notably physically different from any actual Earth gerbil or hamster, but the comparisons are thrown around left and right. He's constantly referred to as "gerbil-like"; Hämsterviel himself takes offense to this (but only because he insists that he's hamster-like.) He hates when people pronounce it "Hamster-wheel", though. | |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_e80fa454 | comment |
Battleborn: A good number of the alien species are basically sapient versions of Earth animals. To name a few, there are the Aviants (Bird People); Pendles' race, the Roa (Snake People) complete with snake tail-like Combat Tentacles that naturally molt off upon adulthood; and the Monstrous Seal-like alien race which the main antagonist of the DLC Toby's Friendship Raid belongs to. | |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_f04b4111 | comment |
Metroid has the Chozo, an advanced race of bird-like aliens responsible for much of the series' backstory, even as much of their own is still shrouded in mystery. Metroid Prime 2: Echoes: The Luminoth are a race of giant anthropomorphic moth-people that seem to have an obsession with light. |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
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Sgt. Frog. The title character and every other character from Planet Keron are from an alien race that resembles cartoony anthropomorphic frogs. Many other alien races based on animals appear too, although very often only their head is actually influenced by one animal or the other and their body is completely human. | |
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Intelligent Gerbil | |
Intelligent Gerbil / int_f8c5624f | comment |
WildStar: The Chua are this both figuratively and literally, being a highly-intelligent gerbil-like race. | |
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The Wild Boy: The Lindauzi. There is a scene where people disagree about whether they look like cats, dogs or bears, but the cover shows them to look a lot like Earth bears. The one difference is that they have crests running from front to back on their heads and cat-like retractable claws. And if they lose their sentience, they'll go back to hunting and killing prey like grizzly or polar bears. | |
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