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Nearly Normal Animal

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107 feature instances
70 referencing feature instances

Nearly Normal Animal	type	FeatureClass
Nearly Normal Animal	label	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal	page	NearlyNormalAnimal
Nearly Normal Animal	comment	Ever notice in fictional works aimed at children, animals tend to have much more (or at least a little more) intelligence than they should? Well, in some cases, this can be done without having the creature walk on its hind legs or speak to humans. Nearly Normal Animals don't talk to humans and are usually quadrupedal if they are that way in real life. They are very much animals, particularly when it comes to instincts, priorities and motivations and they very rarely, if ever, wear clothes. Like many Speech Impaired Animals and Talking Animals, Nearly Normal Animals lack hands and walk on all fours, negating the possibility of performing many human tasks and behaviors. Nearly Normal Animals come in three types, largely normal, mostly normal, and almost normal. Largely Normal Animals (LNAs) clearly have thought processes and often human-level intelligence but don't talk freely with humans. These animal characters may talk to each other, either in their own language or in a human language, but either way, humans won't be able to hear them speak a human language. That is, unless they have the ability to hear what animals are saying. Their thought processes and personality are still very much like that of whatever animal they are. Many of them are able to make human-like arm and hand gestures and some can even grasp objects as if they have opposable thumbs. A few LNAs can sometimes act like the more anthropomorphic Civilized Animal or Funny Animal when required by a joke. Mostly Normal Animals (MNAs) have clear thought processes as well as a few human and/or some or several doglike characteristics (greater frequency of uttering sounds, human-like expressions) that still don't detract from their animality. Unlike LNAs, they don't talk Animal Talk between species, only within their species. Their thought processes and personality are still very much like that of whatever animal they are. These animals usually don't go beyond being able to make human-like hand or arm gestures sometimes. They stay on all four legs if they are four-legged animals. Almost Normal Animals (ANAs) have very few human and/or a few doglike characteristics (e.g., greater frequency of uttering sounds, human-like expressions) that don't detract from their animality, but they allow an audience not well versed in the way of animal behavior to understand what's going on in the animals' minds. Can be an honest mistake or completely intended. They don't make human-like arm or hand gestures and they stay on all four legs if they're four-legged animals. This is the low end of the Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism. The next step up is Speech-Impaired Animal. Below this is truly normal animals, which are not a trope. This trope is often associated with characters that have Amplified Animal Aptitude; in fact, how â€œnearly normalâ€� an animal is can be measured by how much â€œamplified aptitudeâ€� it has. LNAs are often but not always Intellectual Animals. Examples
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Nearly Normal Animal	parsed	2024-03-22T20:02:38Z
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_13652756	comment	The fish and all other animals in Finding Nemo except the anglerfish. They're sapient and emote like humans, but they live very much like fish and they (with the exception of Dory) are illiterate.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_141a7410	comment	Greg's Frog in Over the Garden Wall act like a normal frog but seem to be capable of understand him and understand to some extend what's going on. Of course until The Reveal that he's the narrator.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_1929cbce	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_1929cbce	comment	The Super Mario Bros. Movie: Francis, the Golden Retriever who attacks the Mario Bros. during their first plumbing job, has human-like facial expressions and gives a rather human nod to Luigi at the end of the film after the brothers save Brooklyn, but otherwise acts like a normal dog.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Mabari war hounds of the Dragon Age series are said to be smart enough to talk, wise enough not to. They're certainly able to understand what people say and Hawke's mabari was able to learn to play cards. Dwarven enchanter Sandal even seems to have figured out how to speak "mabari speak."
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_1b49ce18	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_1b49ce18	comment	The cats, dogs, horse, and geese in The Aristocats are this, though the cats in Scat Cat's gang are Partially Civilized Animals and Roquefort the mouse falls squarely into the Civilized Animal trope. What makes the cats, dogs, horse, and geese qualify is that they are mostly normal animals, but they can talk to other animals, make plans, Duchess seems to have a sense of etiquette, and in one scene, they throw a party.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_1f72b18d	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_1f72b18d	comment	The four-legged Tom in the early episodes of Tom and Jerry. In later episodes, he's a Partially Civilized Animal like Jerry, while in the early episodes his only human traits were his facial expressions and opposable thumbs.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_24f540e0	comment	The animals in the Curious George movies and TV series are this, though Curious George is a non-talking Civilized Animal himself.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_261c8d3f	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_261c8d3f	comment	Laddie from The Simpsons episode "The Canine Mutiny". Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II are usually just normal animals, but rise to this level occasionally as the Rule of Funny dictates.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_29efc2f3	comment	Diablo the raven from Sleeping Beauty qualifies. He understands Maleficent's orders and carries them out with great efficiency. While unable to speak, he seems to be able to communicate with Maleficent and the goons in some fashion, as he somehow managed to order the otherwise terribly incompetent mooks into carrying out several organized attacks that would have given Prince Phillip a lot of trouble had the fairies not been there. Phillip's horse Samson also qualifies. He acts and moves like a real horse and can't talk, but appears to understand humans perfectly and is capable of responding to them through body language, such as shaking his head "no" when King Hubert asks him a question or nodding in approval when Phillip gets ready to meet Aurora.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Marc Anthony the dog from Looney Tunes. Also, The Roadrunner, who runs like a normal roadrunner and says nothing but "Beep beep" but is sometimes seen Talking with Signs or doing other human-like things.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_2cdf71e3	comment	The animals in Marmaduke are otherwise normal animals that can talk to each to each other and throw parties, unlike in the comic strip which it was based on in which they're completely normal animals.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_2d2dc041	comment	Serina: During the Ultimocene, a number of creatures become smart enough to develop limited culture and innovative behaviors without becoming smart enough to form true civilization. Sapience, as the narration says, is a spectrum: The one bird that farms a species of snail for food, the farmerjay, does so instinctively, and is described as a clever animal with a strong ability to plan for the future, but isn't self-aware. The porplets and seastrikers are at the very cusp of true sapience as opposed to just being very smart animals, being highly intelligent with rich inner lives. Eventually, the seastrikers become truly sapient beings, the daydreamers, while the porplets' descendants become known as luddies, who typically average the intelligence of a daydreamer child. A few million years later, the luddies also become a sapient species, the greenskeepers. The bluetailed chatteravens are near-sophonts partially descended from a much older sapient species, and have a complex language and the ability to create tools, but apart from a single truly sapient individual they are no more intelligent than a chimp.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_30ccd725	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_30ccd725	comment	The dogs, pack rat, and iguana in Beverly Hills Chihuahua can all talk to each other.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_32503658	comment	Lassie can not only understand, but also bark in some sort of code that humans understand to mean Timmy in a Well.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_3409b655	comment	The monkey in Chuggington
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_36887b1b	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_36887b1b	comment	The otherwise completely normal moth that Gargamel saw in The Smurfs is able to carry out his order to send a swarm of moths. His order backfires and the moth sent a swarm of flies instead, but still.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_3ac755dd	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_3ac755dd	comment	Philipe the horse, the wolves, and most of the other animals in Beauty and the Beast. They're almost completely normal, but Philipe is able to go into I Don't Think That's Such a Good Idea mode, and a pig nods when Le Fou calls Gaston touchy.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_3d15e2a8	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_3d15e2a8	comment	Massimo in Producing Parker when others besides Parker are around; when he's alone with her he becomes a Civilized Animal.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_3f047e59	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_3f047e59	comment	In Our Miss Brooks Mrs. Davis' cat Minerva and Mr. Boynton's frog McDougall were much smarter than your average cat or frog.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_41b0198a	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_41b0198a	comment	Mouse, Harry's pet dog in The Dresden Files, is a foo dog with supernatural ancestors, giving him uncanny senses and instincts. When Harry is turned into a dog at one point, he discovers that Mouse also has human-level intelligence, and can talk in sophisticated ways to other canines.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_426a7572	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_426a7572	comment	Animaniacs: Buttons the dog. He's mostly normal, and unlike Runt he can't talk, but he has an understanding of when Mindy is in danger and how to save her. Also, Newt as Schnappsi the dog in "Puttin on The Blitz". Sykes the crow, Scout the dog, and Squeakers the rat, Pharfignewton the horse, and Gobbles the turkey fall here too.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_4314e80f	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_4314e80f	comment	The penguins in Mr. Popper's Penguins are mostly normal, but Captain lives up to her name in that she often leads the penguins and conspires with them. Also, they teach themselves how to use the toilet.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_433af4de	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_433af4de	comment	Most of the dogs in Underdog, except for Underdog himself, the only dog who can talk to humans.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_43f300b9	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_43f300b9	comment	The non-anthropomorphic animals in Open Season. They can make plans (albeit plans that don't often work), fall in love, and emote like humans, yet they live in the woods and do animal things.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_44e0b783	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_44e0b783	comment	The four-legged Garfield in the earlier comic strips. While in later comic strips, he's become more of a partially-civilised animal, doing things like walking on two legs, in early strips the only human things he did were think complicated thoughts and eat human foods.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_46a4b34d	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_46a4b34d	comment	Sparhawk's horse Faren in The Elenium is clearly far smarter than a typical horse, able to understand human speech to some extent, and to understand and follow combat tactics. He also imitates Sparhawk's behavior, causing others to believe he's a very bad-tempered horse when he's actually trying to fit in.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_4fc1f97	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_4fc1f97	comment	The Magic Key: Floppy the dog has an Inner Monologue which the viewers are privy to, but otherwise acts like a normal dog, and his thoughts are mostly concerned with normal dog things.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_5921531a	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_5921531a	comment	Koromaru from Persona 3. He usually acts like a normal dog, but he's a playable character with the ability to summon a Persona and fights by holding a knife in his mouth. It's clear that he understands a lot of what the humans are saying, and Aigis often "translates" his barking.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_5e629cf6	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_5e629cf6	comment	The dogs and most of the other animals in Lady and the Tramp except the songbirds and pigeons, which are completely normal animals.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_5f6e37ed	comment	Another Sight has Hodge, a rare playable version of this. Various characters remark he 'knows his way around' the strange game world, and he is incredibly helpful to Kit, but he doesn't ever demonstrate anything beyond being a remarkably intelligent cat. Even travelling the dream realm while separated from Kit and jumping through a portal to save her doesn't quite put him as anything beyond this, as that realm is almost certainly a side effect of the Node. Then again, he's implied (and confirmed in the prequel game) to use the portals regularly in order to get around... although whether he makes them or just knows where they are is up in the air.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_600c9847	comment	Pet Squad: The three main characters can talk to each other and the ducks when not supervised, however use Animal Talk to their owner when he's in the room.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_610a28dd	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_610a28dd	comment	Nana the dog, the unnamed crocodile, and other animals from Peter Pan, Fairies, and Jake And The Neverland Pirates. The crocodile for instance can understand English and does things like nod his head and twiddle his fingers.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_61831293	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_61831293	comment	Charlotte's Web: Unlike in the book and the animated movie, the animals talk in front of humans besides Fern several times and the humans don't seem to notice.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_627507ac	comment	The birds and other animals in Rio can talk, but only to each other, and they snark at each other the way a human would and can dance.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_6c4031ea	comment	The animals in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs mainly act like normal forest animals, but they seem to be able to understand speech, such as when a bird blushes at Snow White's emotional song. They're also able to clean a house and to alert the dwarfs to danger.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_6ccd7b51	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_6ccd7b51	comment	The wolves of Off-White talk and reason very similarly to how humans would, but in regards of their motivations, instincts and sophistication (or lack thereof) they are still depicted mostly quite close to what one would expect of real wolves.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_6ed555bb	comment	Biscuit the dog in Stone Soup. She's usually seen doing Thought Bubble Speech with Max.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_72262aee	comment	Appa and Momo in Avatar: The Last Airbender albeit fantasy animals, they act like animals. Of them both Appa is more intelligent than Momo as he does understand human language whilst Momo can't understand the meaning of the word water.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_746814ae	comment	Most of the non-anthro animals in Arthur including Pal and Nemo. They can scheme and speak Animal Talk in some episodes, but they never do human-like gestures, mainly think like animals if brainy ones, and don't even understand English.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_750ce27d	comment	In The Golden Hamster Saga, mammals can talk to each other and understand human speech. Freddy also knows how to read and type, but he is the only animal who can do so.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_7695c1d3	comment	A Dog's Purpose: Dogs cannot talk to each other beyond normal dog body language and barking. The protagonist can understand humans to a degree. He understands the words they say but not the meaning of most words, and thus his brain drowns out anything he doesn't get and tries to pick up what he wants to hear (such as his name or the word "biscuit"). The protagonist acts, and is treated like, a completely like a normal dog. He's also shown to be more scent-oriented than visually-oriented.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_77c1cdcc	comment	On Little Princess, Little Princess's cat looks like a cat, pretty much behaves like a cat and can't talk or anything. However, he sometimes reacts as if he understands stuff that the humans are saying or doing, and sometimes puts on accessories, stands on two legs (but not generally for very long), or holds things in his paws.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_77ff1111	comment	Lucifer the cat, Bruno the dog, and Major the horse in Cinderella. Both seem to have an understanding of human speech, and Lucifer seems to be capable of doing things to spite the humans.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_7b82aa31	comment	The dogs and other animals in 101 Dalmatians are either this or Talking Animals. They can communicate between species and are very strategic, and Sgt. Tibbs sometimes does human-like gestures but they're still very much their own species. However, it is not clear whether they can't talk to humans or just choose not to.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_7ce87d36	comment	Feed the Cat: The cats mainly behave like real-life cats, but they sit with their back legs out in front of them and their front legs at their sides. They also like having money catapulted into their mouths for reasons unknown.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	Sven from Frozen behaves somewhat like a dog and can understand speech, but never really does anything human-like.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_7e9d1a6c	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_7e9d1a6c	featureConfidence	1.0
Frozen (2013)	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_7e9d1a6c
Nearly Normal Animal / int_7eac0647	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_7eac0647	comment	Azrael in Smurfs: The Lost Village, who is also clearly smarter than his owner Gargamel.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_7eac0647	featureConfidence	1.0
Smurfs: The Lost Village	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_7eac0647
Nearly Normal Animal / int_7f9e0e5f	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_7f9e0e5f	comment	Rover from Red and Rover is pretty much a normal dog with dog-type priorities and behavior, but he can think like a person, and communicates with Red (a human) in Thought Bubble Speech.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_7f9e0e5f	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_7f9e0e5f	featureConfidence	1.0
Red and Rover (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_7f9e0e5f
Nearly Normal Animal / int_81341360	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_81341360	comment	While most of the animals in the Ice Age sequels are Partially Civilized Animals, the dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles that appear are basically this trope. At least this was true until the fifth movie, which introduced talking dinosaurs.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_81341360	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_81341360	featureConfidence	1.0
Ice Age	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_81341360
Nearly Normal Animal / int_836708e9	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_836708e9	comment	The animals in Dr. Dolittle can talk to each other and Dr. Dolittle, and occasionally do human things, but are still very much animals.
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Dr. Dolittle	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_836708e9
Nearly Normal Animal / int_884bcbd0	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_884bcbd0	comment	Buster, Darby's pet dog, and the squirrels from My Friends Tigger & Pooh. In Buster's case, he's pretty much a normal dog, but occasionally sounds as though he's asking a question or seems like he understands English.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_884bcbd0	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_884bcbd0	featureConfidence	1.0
My Friends Tigger & Pooh	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_884bcbd0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_891a219c	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_891a219c	comment	The Land Before Time: While most of the carnivorous antagonists are completely normal animals, the herbivorous main characters and their families qualify because they feel complex emotions and go through different adventures together, but still act like dinosaurs in the wild with zero access to human technology.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_891a219c	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_891a219c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Land Before Time	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_891a219c
Nearly Normal Animal / int_8c4ccde2	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_8c4ccde2	comment	A Sick Day for Amos McGee: The animals have human-level intelligence and understand games like chess and hide-and-seek, and sometimes they sit like humans, but they can't talk (except, possibly, for the owl, who "read a story aloud" but it's unknown if he read it in English or Animal Talk) and they behave more like very smart, docile animals than like humans.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_8c4ccde2	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_8c4ccde2	featureConfidence	1.0
A Sick Day For Amos Mc Gee	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_8c4ccde2
Nearly Normal Animal / int_8e8a801	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_8e8a801	comment	The animals of the The Lion King live under a monarchy ruled by lions that has organized events and laws and animals are shown to be capable of interacting with each other on a sapient level. But nevertheless, most animals more or less act as the real life counterparts would such as meerkats living in underground tunnels, lions and hyenas hunting other animals, and ungulates grazing on grass. Although the movie does tend to put a more anthropomorphic spin on otherwise natural behaviors such as the trio of hyenas cracking jokes about how they're going to eat Simba, Nala, and Zazu.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_8e8a801	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_8e8a801	featureConfidence	1.0
The Lion King (Franchise)	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_8e8a801
Nearly Normal Animal / int_8f36f969	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_8f36f969	comment	The Loud House: Most of the animals qualify— they're capable of using logic, and Walt falls in love in one episode. They also sometimes appear holding objects or wearing clothes, but only for the sake of a joke. Their understanding of English is inconsistent— in "No Guts, No Glori" they appear to only understand commands like "sit", yet in the "So Long, Sucker" short, they go into Oh, Crap! mode when Lynn Sr. says he will be getting five more of the vacuum cleaners they hate.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_8f36f969	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_8f36f969	featureConfidence	1.0
The Loud House	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_8f36f969
Nearly Normal Animal / int_93e3f14e	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_93e3f14e	comment	Many of the animals in Tarzan, especially the gorillas and elephants. They talk to each other and Tarzan, and Terk the gorilla even knows some letters. She apparently isn't intelligent enough to use the typewriter to communicate with the other humans, though.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_93e3f14e	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_93e3f14e	featureConfidence	1.0
Tarzan	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_93e3f14e
Nearly Normal Animal / int_986cb4dc	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_986cb4dc	comment	All the dogs from Balto. They talk to each other but humans hear only barking. They also understand that it is their duty to deliver the medicine to sick people, and seem to be aware of the consequences of their potential failure.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_986cb4dc	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_986cb4dc	featureConfidence	1.0
Balto	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_986cb4dc
Nearly Normal Animal / int_986cb669	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_986cb669	comment	The animals in Bambi live (and mainly act) like forest animals, but are capable of complex thought, can fall in love, and sometimes do things like point or dance.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_986cb669	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_986cb669	featureConfidence	1.0
Bambi	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_986cb669
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9891fcdd	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9891fcdd	comment	Dumbo: The circus animals look and behave largely like their real-life counterparts, but they know the routine of setting up and performing a show. The elephants even work as a team to help pitch the main tent without any obvious handling or guidance. Timothy, the Delivery Stork and the gang of crows are closer to Civilized Animal, as they wear clothes, talk fluently, and have a bipedal stance (with Feather Fingers in the case of the latter two).
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9891fcdd	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9891fcdd	featureConfidence	1.0
Dumbo	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_9891fcdd
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9935ae18	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9935ae18	comment	The sandpipers and hermit crabs from Piper look, sound and behave mostly like their Real Life counterparts, although their face is slightly more expressive and are apparently capable of between-species communication.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9935ae18	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9935ae18	featureConfidence	1.0
Piper	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_9935ae18
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9994a14f	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9994a14f	comment	The cockroach from WALLâ€¢E is generally normal, but sometimes expresses affection like a dog might.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9994a14f	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9994a14f	featureConfidence	1.0
WALLâ€¢E	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_9994a14f
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9aac0273	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9aac0273	comment	The dogs in Men at Arms can talk to each other and have even formed their own guild, with their leader being a small, mad poodle who preaches that all dogs should behave like wolves and rebel against their masters. They can't communicate with the humans (to the exception of Gaspode, whose ability to speak human is seen as a superpower), and mostly behave like normal dogs otherwise.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9aac0273	featureApplicability	1.0
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Men at Arms	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_9aac0273
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9acdda28	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9acdda28	comment	The cast of Watership Down, both books, film, and TV series. The rabbits have a language, mythology and organized military groups, and are capable of planning and forming friendships, but otherwise look and behave like real rabbits.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9acdda28	featureApplicability	1.0
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Watership Down	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_9acdda28
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9b530c26	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9b530c26	comment	Hot Dog of Archie Comics would act like this in his own title, where he was revealed to have a high-tech super-structure underneath his common dog house. The series didn't last long.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9b530c26	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9b530c26	featureConfidence	1.0
Archie Comics (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_9b530c26
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9e226520	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9e226520	comment	The Girl Who Drank the Moon includes an unnamed crow that only makes birdcalls, but that Luna can understand like speech. That particular crow had a magical origin and there is no evidence of it speaking with other crows.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9e226520	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_9e226520	featureConfidence	1.0
The Girl Who Drank the Moon	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_9e226520
Nearly Normal Animal / int_a04b0ca3	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Snowy in Tintin. He's clever enough to trick human beings, hide when his master's attacked and either sneak in to free him or run off to fetch help as needed, and occasionally understand rather specific instructions. He also has a fondness for booze, and occasionally thinks to himself in intelligible sentences.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_a04b0ca3	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_a04b0ca3	featureConfidence	1.0
Tintin (Franchise)	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_a04b0ca3
Nearly Normal Animal / int_a583fe1e	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_a583fe1e	comment	Sam the Cat: Detective: Sam and the other cats are LNAs. They understand everything humans say and refer to humans as their roommates and/or employers. A cat who lives in a police station introduces himself as Officer Gomez, and Sam's friend Butch considers chasing mice at the supermarket to be a job. Some cats hire other cats to do jobs for food. Cats are capable of making phone calls to each other, reading, and typing emails. Shortly before The Big Catnap Sandy and Rosie have a church wedding, with another cat acting as the minister. In The Maltese Kitten, Butch talks about joining the Republican Party.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_a583fe1e	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_a583fe1e	featureConfidence	1.0
Sam the Cat: Detective	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_a583fe1e
Nearly Normal Animal / int_a7b3790b	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_a7b3790b	comment	Scurry: None of the mice are clothed, and only Ork has a collar around her neck. Wix picks up a carry satchel from a dead mouse at one point.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_a7b3790b	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_a7b3790b	featureConfidence	1.0
Scurry (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_a7b3790b
Nearly Normal Animal / int_a979dd4a	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_a979dd4a	comment	The titular kangaroo of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo not only shows a remarkable understanding of English, but often imitates human behaviors like playing a piano or the drums.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_a979dd4a	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_a979dd4a	featureConfidence	1.0
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_a979dd4a
Nearly Normal Animal / int_aedbe0ff	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_aedbe0ff	comment	The Duck Hunt Dog in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U / 3DS. He seems to be smart enough to use the same items as the rest of the cast can and stands up in his hind legs to use them, but aside from some attacks and taunts, he spends most of the fight in four legs and only does dog sounds, and when not in use, he carries the items in his mouth. It's not clear to what degree he can communicate with his duck partner, but they seem to work in good synchrony.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_aedbe0ff	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_aedbe0ff	featureConfidence	1.0
Duck Hunt (Video Game)	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_aedbe0ff
Nearly Normal Animal / int_aef1a28c	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_aef1a28c	comment	In the Preschool Popstars music video for "I Didn't Mean to Burp", a cat is seen sitting on its haunches, but with its front legs in the air and holding a slice of pizza.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_aef1a28c	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_aef1a28c	featureConfidence	1.0
Preschool Popstars (Music)	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_aef1a28c
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b2ac2311	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b2ac2311	comment	The four-legged Snoopy from the earlier Peanuts comic strips. While he's a Civilised Animal for most of the strips, in the early ones, he mainly seemed like a normal dog who was just smart like a human.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b2ac2311	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b2ac2311	featureConfidence	1.0
Peanuts (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_b2ac2311
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b517d654	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b517d654	comment	Infinity Train has lots of talking or Civilized Animals, but then there's the deer whom our season two protagonists dub "Alan Dracula." In terms of behavior his only odd trait seems to be how friendly and unafraid he is of other creatures, willingly following MT and Jesse on their journey; however, he also has a random and ever-growing set of superpowers. Given his limited intelligence, however, this makes him as much a hindrance as a help with the Train's various tasks.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b517d654	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b517d654	featureConfidence	1.0
Infinity Train	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_b517d654
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b5bbed98	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b5bbed98	comment	Sonya the bear in Madagascar: Europe's Most Wanted, contrasted with the rest of the cast, which is made up of Largely Normal Animals and Civilized Animals. This makes her romance with King Julien all the funnier. She can't communicate with the other animals, and she mainly acts like a normal bear, albeit a circus bear.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b5bbed98	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b5bbed98	featureConfidence	1.0
Madagascar	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_b5bbed98
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b63f3408	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b63f3408	comment	Bom-Bom the tawal in The Great Power of Chninkel. Though he can't speak, he picks up language easily and by the end of the book he's able to communicate the story of J'on to his descendants through simple sounds and hand gestures.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b63f3408	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b63f3408	featureConfidence	1.0
The Great Power of Chninkel (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_b63f3408
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b6717e02	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b6717e02	comment	Bad Mermaids: Old Wonky, an octopus who works as a palace servant, can understand everything mermaids say but can't talk. He can answer yes or no questions by wriggling or rocking. When he tries to say more complicated things, he usually isn't understood, like when he jumps up and down on Liberty Ling's throne to show that she's responsible for fishnapping Arabella Cod.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b6717e02	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b6717e02	featureConfidence	1.0
Bad Mermaids	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_b6717e02
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b9252e67	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b9252e67	comment	In A Dog's Life, the dogs are not depicted as talking, however it's implied that dogs can talk to each other. Squirrel acts like a dog and doesn't completely understand how humans think.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b9252e67	featureApplicability	1.0
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A Dog's Life	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_b9252e67
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b94ae31e	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b94ae31e	comment	Shaun in Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave is Largely Normal. The rest of the flock would be Mostly Normal if it wasn't for the Ovine Ladder scene. They go through a major Anthropomorphic Shift by the time they get their own series.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b94ae31e	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_b94ae31e	featureConfidence	1.0
Wallace & Gromit	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_b94ae31e
Nearly Normal Animal / int_bb608bc7	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_bb608bc7	comment	Fluffy Louise Lopart, Mr. Lopart's cat, and a few of the other animals from Handy Manny.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_bb608bc7	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_bb608bc7	featureConfidence	1.0
Handy Manny	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_bb608bc7
Nearly Normal Animal / int_bc848d30	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_bc848d30	comment	Many non-anthropomorphic animals in SpongeBob SquarePants. The nematodes, for example, can talk, but they only say "Hungry!" and "Thirsty!".
Nearly Normal Animal / int_bc848d30	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_bc848d30	featureConfidence	1.0
SpongeBob SquarePants	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_bc848d30
Nearly Normal Animal / int_be1d5042	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_be1d5042	comment	The animals in Happy Feet can communicate between species (with the exception of whales) but see humans as "aliens".
Nearly Normal Animal / int_be1d5042	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_be1d5042	featureConfidence	1.0
Happy Feet	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_be1d5042
Nearly Normal Animal / int_c309807e	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_c309807e	comment	Erika's dog Zach from Ginga e Kickoff!! is a mean soccer player.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_c309807e	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_c309807e	featureConfidence	1.0
Ginga e Kickoff!!	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_c309807e
Nearly Normal Animal / int_c4282b71	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_c4282b71	comment	Opalescence the white Persian cat and the other animals and pets from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Opal, for instance, is a mainly normal cat but the timing of her meows suggests Cats Are Snarkers. Owlowicious is mainly a regular owl but he can sort books at the library and works as Twilight's nighttime assistant.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_c4282b71	featureApplicability	1.0
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_c4282b71
Nearly Normal Animal / int_c58e3dfc	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_c58e3dfc	comment	The animals in Martha Speaks except Martha, who is a Talking Animal. Namely, they behave like regular animals mostly, but can understand English, conspire together, and sometimes try to do human things like cook (albeit very badly).
Nearly Normal Animal / int_c58e3dfc	featureApplicability	1.0
Nearly Normal Animal / int_c58e3dfc	featureConfidence	1.0
Martha Speaks	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_c58e3dfc
Nearly Normal Animal / int_c710e923	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_c710e923	comment	A Dog's Way Home is a Spiritual Successor to A Dog's Purpose and is written by the same author. It follows the same conventions, with dogs being unable to hear each other's thoughts or communicate beyond body language (which creates some confusion between Bella and others) and the protagonist Bella largely being a normal dog with a very inhuman way of thinking.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_c710e923	featureApplicability	1.0
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A Dog's Way Home	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_c710e923
Nearly Normal Animal / int_c95e9d87	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_c95e9d87	comment	The dogs in Up. They mainly behave like dogs but are trained to do pretty sophisticated things like cook, and are once seen playing cards. In addition, their thoughts, which are conveyed through their collars, are pretty sophisticated with the exception of the Running Gag of them randomly thinking, "Squirrel!".
Nearly Normal Animal / int_c95e9d87	featureApplicability	1.0
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Up	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_c95e9d87
Nearly Normal Animal / int_d10e315e	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_d10e315e	comment	The animals in Racing Stripes can talk to each other, make plans, and fall in love.
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Racing Stripes	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_d10e315e
Nearly Normal Animal / int_d3954793	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_d3954793	comment	The cats and dogs in Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey and its sequel can talk to each other, but are otherwise normal animals.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_d3954793	featureConfidence	1.0
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_d3954793
Nearly Normal Animal / int_d4f9ccf	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_d4f9ccf	comment	Rajah the tiger from Aladdin. He's mostly normal, but he's seen looking offended when Jasmine doesn't count him as a friend and confused when the Sultan says, "Allah forbid you should have any daughters!".
Nearly Normal Animal / int_d4f9ccf	featureApplicability	1.0
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Aladdin	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_d4f9ccf
Nearly Normal Animal / int_d6594a79	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_d6594a79	comment	Hashie the blue shoebill from Classicaloid is a realistic representation of the species, save for his unlikely colour. His stoic behaviour combined with his naturally bizarre appearance and the absurd situations he gets in makes for a rather amusing sight. The only times when he exhibits human-like reactions is for occasional throwaway gags.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_d6594a79	featureApplicability	1.0
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Classicaloid	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_d6594a79
Nearly Normal Animal / int_d9bbe86e	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_d9bbe86e	comment	The equine cast in Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron have some slightly doglike behavior and expressions. They have human eyebrows and visible, white sclera. The narrator is a horse, and the horses have a sense of humour, can plan ahead, and are implied to have their own language. At least some individuals also have romantic love, although Spirit's home herd seems to follow the normal stallion/harem order.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_d9bbe86e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_d9bbe86e
Nearly Normal Animal / int_db30cf92	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_db30cf92	comment	The cats of Warrior Cats have an elaborate society and culture unlike real feral cat behavior, but almost never communicate with other species (the only times this happens are when one cat speaks Dog to make some dogs go away, when an unusually intelligent rat speaks Cat, and when Midnight the Badger speaks Cat). They remain quadrupedal but vocalize more than real life cats.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_db30cf92	featureApplicability	1.0
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Warrior Cats	hasFeature	Nearly Normal Animal / int_db30cf92
Nearly Normal Animal / int_dcc98b7e	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_dcc98b7e	comment	DC League of Super-Pets features animals that are able to converse with each other and not humansâ€¦ with the added twist that they exist in the DC Comics universe and a number of them have powers and belong to famous heroes such as Superman.
Nearly Normal Animal / int_dcc98b7e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_de1ec173	comment	The same goes, of course, for the dragons in the sequel series Dragons: The Nine Realms. In this show, this is explained by dragons being extremely empathetic creatures which have strong reactions to emotions. As such, unless they are territorial like the Glass Caster or naturally aggressive like the Skrill, they are usually friendly, or at the very least harmless, creatures towards both humans and each other despite not having had contact with humans in over 1,300 years. Big Bad JÃ¶rmungandr stands out among the dragons in this show. While appearing more like a vicious animal bound by its natural predatory instincts to hunt and kill any dragon it crosses paths with at first, it has been shown to be able to learn, recognize and avoid traps and even formulate strategies such as when it pulled a Batman Gambit on the riders by attacking the Night Lights as a distraction for its real target, the God's Realm, the so-called "lungs" of the Hidden World were most of the Hidden World's oxygen is produced. Even the riders who already treat dragons as their equals are taken aback by JÃ¶rmungandr's cunning.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_df735678	comment	Spike is usually a completely realistic animal, but in Rugrats Go Wild!, he falls in this level and is shown to speak Animal Talk.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_e0730aee	comment	Semi and Miranda in Dr. Franklin's Island are unusual examples, since they started off human and became a fish and a bird, respectively. But The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body, and they have animal-selves which are intelligent but disinterested in human things, and which threaten to take over.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_e0cc2a40	comment	The dragons in Dragons: Riders of Berk act mostly as normal animals and can't talk at all, but their body language and facial expressions clearly show their thoughts and emotions, and they also understand their rider. In some cases, e.g. Barf and Belch, an arguement can be made that they're even smarter than their riders. The same goes, of course, for the dragons in the sequel series Dragons: The Nine Realms. In this show, this is explained by dragons being extremely empathetic creatures which have strong reactions to emotions. As such, unless they are territorial like the Glass Caster or naturally aggressive like the Skrill, they are usually friendly, or at the very least harmless, creatures towards both humans and each other despite not having had contact with humans in over 1,300 years. Big Bad JÃ¶rmungandr stands out among the dragons in this show. While appearing more like a vicious animal bound by its natural predatory instincts to hunt and kill any dragon it crosses paths with at first, it has been shown to be able to learn, recognize and avoid traps and even formulate strategies such as when it pulled a Batman Gambit on the riders by attacking the Night Lights as a distraction for its real target, the God's Realm, the so-called "lungs" of the Hidden World were most of the Hidden World's oxygen is produced. Even the riders who already treat dragons as their equals are taken aback by JÃ¶rmungandr's cunning.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_e5c93c13	comment	The horse from Miitopia understands whatâ€™s going on around it, follows orders, and may nod its head when asked a question, but otherwise acts like a normal horse.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_e5ff30a8	comment	Adiboo: Magical Playland: In contrast to Adiboo's pet dog Pup, who has human-like hands and a suction cup-shaped leg, the bees, birds, cat, and fish are almost completely non-anthropomorphic.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_e8595ff9	comment	Pascal the chameleon and Maximus the horse from Tangled. Both are capable of understanding speech and they make human-like expressions and gestures.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_e86f8c9	comment	Rooster Fighter: All animals in the manga have human-like intelligence, but can only talk directly between each other. Elizabeth, a chicken, is even skilled at using the smartphone and at cooking.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_e951212	comment	Kwang from Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues acts like a normal squirrel but is somewhat capable of understanding the world around him, a little moreso than most animals would be. He's helped along by Hyeon's guidance.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_ea1566dc	comment	The wolves and other animals in Alpha and Omega can talk to each other and Kate wears a flower.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_ebd9895f	comment	Dinah the kitten from Alice in Wonderland is between this and a LNA. Namely, she behaves like a normal cat, but shakes her head no at one point.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_ec24be81	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_ec24be81	comment	Bolt: All of the animal characters fit this description, belonging to the "Largely Normal Animal" subtype. They can talk to each other (but not to humans) and can perform a few human-like actions, but for the most part they act like their species normally would.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_f4291939	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_f4291939	comment	Brutus and Nero the crocodiles from The Rescuers can understand commands and act somewhat doglike.
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Nearly Normal Animal / int_f634206e	type	Nearly Normal Animal
Nearly Normal Animal / int_f634206e	comment	The rats in Ratatouille can speak to each other, and seem to be cleaner than most rats. Remy has also learnt to cook. On the other hand, Remy still bites instinctively when he's hungry, and most of them have the palates of generic rats.
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