Furry Fandom

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Furry fandom

is a fandom distinguished by its enjoyment of anthropomorphic animalcharacters. Examples of anthropomorphism in furry fandom include the attribution of humanintelligence, facial expressions, anatomy, speech, bipedalism, and clothing to otherwiseanimal characters. Members of this subculture are sometimes known as furry fans, furries, orsimply furs.

Art and entertainment celebrated by furry fandom include fictional work that employs theconcept of animal characters with human characteristics, rather than any particular type offiction. For this reason, any work, in any medium, may be considered part of the furry genresimply by inclusion of an anthropomorphized animal character, although such characters aremost often seen in comics, cartoons, animated films, allegorical novels, and video games. Thescience fiction and fantasy genres make frequent use of anthropomorphism, and as a result,are especially popular in furry fandom.

Since the 1980s, the term furries has come to refer to anthropomorphic animal characters.Although mammals are the most common, anthropomorphized reptiles, birds or aquatic animalsmay also be known as furries

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