# Favorite non-anthropomorphic cartoon animal **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2018, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487 "2018-05-20T01:31:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trisha\_Gaurav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Trisha\_Gaurav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trisha_Gaurav)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/1 "2018-05-20T01:31:31Z")
What’s your favorite non-anthropomorphic cartoon animal? Mine would have to be either Tom or Jerry. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/2 "2018-05-20T01:33:01Z")
Gromit ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/3 "2018-05-20T01:39:13Z")
Yakky Doodle ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/4 "2018-05-20T02:08:27Z")
I’ll assume that by “non-anthropomorphic,” you mean they don’t talk. In that case, I’ll go with Gromit too, followed by Snoopy (in the funnies). Otherwise, Rocky and Bullwinkle come to mind. So does Brian Griffin. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/5 "2018-05-20T02:11:15Z")
The Road Runner and The Coyote. ETA: There were a few times the Coyote addressed the viewing audience. Doesn’t count. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/6 "2018-05-20T02:19:35Z")
Diogee, of Milo Murphy’s Law fame. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/7 "2018-05-20T02:19:40Z")
> [@Trisha\_Gaurav](#): > > What’s your favorite non-anthropomorphic cartoon animal? Mine would have to be either Tom or Jerry. I don’t think that anthropororphic means what you think it means. Tom and Jerry are very much anthropomorphic. To be non-anthropomorphic, they can’t stand and move in human ways, walking on two legs, using tools, etc. It can talk, but it must still move like an animal. So a cartoon example would be the rabbits in _Watership Down_, or the dogs in _101 Dalmations_. But to make an attempt at an answer, a not very firm placeholder might be the cat from _Bolt_, or possibly the one from _Kiki’s Delivery Service_, or maybe the chameleon from _Tangled_, or… ---
**Author:** ![Trisha\_Gaurav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Trisha\_Gaurav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trisha_Gaurav)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/8 "2018-05-20T02:22:06Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I don’t think that anthropororphic means what you think it means. Tom and Jerry are very much anthropomorphic. To be non-anthropomorphic, they can’t stand and move in human ways, walking on two legs, using tools, etc. It can talk, but it must still move like an animal. So a cartoon example would be the rabbits in _Watership Down_, or the dogs in _101 Dalmations_. > > But to make an attempt at an answer, a not very firm placeholder might be the cat from _Bolt_, or possibly the one from _Kiki’s Delivery Service_, or maybe the chameleon from _Tangled_, or… Tom’s knees are always out when he walks. I’ve never seen a human walk like that. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/9 "2018-05-20T02:23:25Z")
> [@Trisha\_Gaurav](#): > > What’s your favorite non-anthropomorphic cartoon animal? Mine would have to be either Tom or Jerry. What is your definition of ‘non-anthropomorphic’, because those two are totally anthropomorphic by any definition I know. My favourite only mildly anthro animal is Lion from Steven Universe (he’s clearly of at least near human level intelligence, but he acts like an animal, has a sub-Lassie ability to communicate with the humans and Gems, and is definitely animal shaped, without much in the way of human-like expressions). ---
**Author:** ![Trisha\_Gaurav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Trisha\_Gaurav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trisha_Gaurav)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/10 "2018-05-20T02:26:25Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > What is your definition of ‘non-anthropomorphic’, because those two are totally anthropomorphic by any definition I know. > > My favourite only mildly anthro animal is Lion from Steven Universe (he’s clearly of at least near human level intelligence, but he acts like an animal, has a sub-Lassie ability to communicate with the humans and Gems, and is definitely animal shaped, without much in the way of human-like expressions). I would say it has to walk just like a human to be considered anthropomorphic. Tom and Jerry, Stitch, and Perry the Platypus all walk like animals. But if it talks in complete sentences, that would also be anthropomorphic. For example, Donkey is anthropomorphic even though he moves like a real donkey. Scooby is not anthropomorphic because he has the vocabulary of a one-year-old. ---
**Author:** ![kjbrasda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/74df32/32.png) [@kjbrasda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjbrasda)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/11 "2018-05-20T02:51:15Z")
> **[Definition of ANTHROPOMORPHIC](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anthropomorphic)** > > described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes; ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things… See the full definition “1. described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes.” “2. ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things” Not only “walk just like a human” XD This includes walking, talking, or doing human like things like smoking, setting traps, reading newspapers, etc. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/12 "2018-05-20T02:51:22Z")
I didn’t know cartoons had a different definition of anthropomorphic than everyone else. At first blush, I’d consider any animal not formed the same way as the natural animal to be anthropomorphic. (i.e. anything reshaped to look even slightly more human) It’s also anthropomorphic to give them thought bubbles or speech bubbles or the ability to read or make plans… but hey it’s a cartoon 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/13 "2018-05-20T02:52:57Z")
The minute I saw the title, I said “But there’s no clear line. This is going to be a mess.” But my vote is Snoopy. (OG Snoopy – original as in pre-January 9, 1956, the day he first stood on two legs) ---
**Author:** ![Trisha\_Gaurav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Trisha\_Gaurav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trisha_Gaurav)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/14 "2018-05-20T02:57:05Z")
> [@kjbrasda](#): > > [Anthropomorphic Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anthropomorphic) > > “1. described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes.” > “2. ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things” > > Not only “walk just like a human” XD > > This includes walking, talking, or doing human like things like smoking, setting traps, reading newspapers, etc. Did you read the full post? I consider Donkey anthropomorphic. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/15 "2018-05-20T02:59:56Z")
> [@Trisha\_Gaurav](#): > > Tom and Jerry, Stitch, and Perry the Platypus all walk like animals. Not really, no. They walk like cartoon characters. They never walk on all fours (well, Perry might, I don’t watch Phineas and Ferb), they’re perfectly stable on their hind legs, and they don’t waddle, hop, or dance around unsteadily. Calling a speaking feral more anthropomorphic than an anthro with a funny gait (not all that different from mine, frankly - my ankles are turned and my knees are shit, so I walk funny), even one who’s mute, is distinctly idiosyncratic. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/16 "2018-05-20T03:03:47Z")
[Frisky the puppy](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a1/b7/0a/a1b70acbe130cc14c984841b6b441e8c.jpg), who was always innocently terrorizing Claude Cat in the old Warner Brothers cartoons. All he wanted to do was play, like nearly all puppies do. Dino from the Flintstones. Except for that one cartoon, which I’ve tried to block from my memory, he doesn’t talk or act human-like. He’s just a prehistoric man’s best friend. ---
**Author:** ![kjbrasda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/74df32/32.png) [@kjbrasda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjbrasda)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/17 "2018-05-20T03:04:28Z")
Did you read my full post? Put it this way. Non of the animals listed in this thread are fully non-anthropomorphic. They all have human like qualities or ascribed motives. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/18 "2018-05-20T03:38:01Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Not really, no. They walk like cartoon characters. They never walk on all fours (well, Perry might, I don’t watch Phineas and Ferb), they’re perfectly stable on their hind legs, and they don’t waddle, hop, or dance around unsteadily. Oh, and Tom’s feet are plantigrade, whereas real cats are digitigrade. (Platypodes and mice are both plantigrade.) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/19 "2018-05-20T04:02:16Z")
Since the OP didn’t use anthropomorphic correctly anyway, it doesn’t matter who you pick. But I would steer away from the likes of Donald Duck, Foghorn Leghorn, Top Cat, or Disney’s Robin Hood, which are far more humanoid than, say, Bolt, Bambi, or Lady and the Tramp. As for non-speaking, I think that narrows the options down too much. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/20 "2018-05-20T04:13:30Z")
_ **Top Cat** _ is my absolute favorite H-B cartoon, mainly because it’s an animated version of _ **Sgt Bilko** _. Doesn’t get more anthropomorphic than that! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487.md?page=2)