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Horse

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[[File:An example anthro horse.jpeg|thumb|150px|Another example, this time by himself and a bit more humanized.]]
[[File:Anthro_dolphin_and_anthro_horse.jpg|thumb|150px|Anthro horse character, with his anthro dolphin friend. Art by [[Brallion]].]]
'''Horses''' are a very common species of animal in the real world. Domesticated horses play an important role in the [[human]] history. The adjective referring to horses is [[equine]].

==Physical characteristics==

Horses are large, heavy, [[hoof]]ed [[mammal]]s. They are [[herbivores]], and feed by grazing, commonly on grass.

Despite their large size and weight (up to 2500 pounds, or 1134 kg), horses are generally thought of as gentle creatures; however, their [[hoof|hooves]] can cause great damage by kicking or trampling.

The [[fur]] of a horse is mostly very short, forming an almost skintight covering, except on the head and back of the neck, which grows long into a formation called the [[fur|mane]]; and the tail, which is specialized in horses for protecting the rear from [[fly|flies]]: it has a bunch of long, very fine hairs which are swiped to disturb the flies. Horsetails are prized for their silk-like hairs.

==Terminology==

A [[male]] horse is called a '''stallion''', a [[female]] horse is called a '''mare''', and an offspring less than one year old a '''foal''' (male: '''colt''', female: '''filly''').

===Hybrids===

A '''mule''' is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. The much rarer successful mating of a male horse and a female donkey produces a '''hinny'''. The offspring of a zebra-horse cross is called a '''zorse''', '''zebroid''', '''horsebra''', '''zebrula''', or '''zebrule'''; "zebra mule" is an older term, but still used in some regions today. The foregoing terms generally refer to these hybrids. '''Hebra''' and '''zebrinny''' also refer to crosses of a female zebra with a male horse.

==Breeds==

The horse is largely a domestic animal and has been bred for centuries. The species which produced the horse no longer exists in the wild, although some wild horse species exist.

Horses have been selectively bred to enhance various qualities, enabling them to fulfill various roles in their work for humans. Draft horses are bred for power, and are thus large and heavy; show horses are bred for grace and beauty; racehorses, for speed.

== Horses and furry ==

In [[furry artwork]], [[Anthropomorphic|anthro]] horses are often represented with hooved hands - either as full hooves that are somehow able to manipulate objects, or as more humanoid hands with hooflike nails.

==See also==

* [[W:Horse|Horse]] on [[Wikipedia]]
* [[Pony]]
* [[Centaur]]
* [[Pegasus]]
* [[Unicorn]]
* [[Donkey]]
* [[:Category:Horse characters|Horse characters]]

== External links ==

* [http://furry.de/miavir/stories/key.horse.html Stories with "horse" species keyword] at [[Mia's Index of Anthro' Stories]]
* [http://ultimatehorsesite.com/colors/index.html Horse color, markings, and genetics]

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Liger

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A '''liger''' is a [[hybrid]] [[species]] resulting from the mating of a male [[lion]] to a female [[tiger]]. The offspring is generally much larger than either of the parents, averaging a weight of 900 to 1000 lbs, with some individuals known to weigh as much as 1500 lbs without being significantly overweight.

A related animal is the [[tigon]], which is the offspring of a female lion and a male tiger.

Ligers generally possess a combination of traits from both parents, appearing as a clear mix between a lion and a tiger. Males often possess a mane, while both males and females bear brownish stripes from their tiger parent along their otherwise tawny body and face, and cubs may have rosettes from their lion parent. They only exist in captivity because the territories of its two species don't overlap in the wild.

It is sometimes stated by scientists that the liger resembles what the pre-historic large cats known as the European cave lion and American lion had looked like, in both stature and pelage. These species of large cat went extinct approximately 10,000 years ago and are credited to be direct ancestors to both modern lions and tigers.

The females are fertile and the males are sterile. When the females are mated with a lion, they can produce liligers, or when they are mated with a tiger, they can produce tligers.

== See also ==

* [[Wikipedia:Liger|Liger]] on [[Wikipedia]]
* [[:Category:Liger characters|Liger characters]]

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Liger

2023-04-06T20:01:17Z

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[[File:Liger.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Liger and cub]]
A '''liger''' is a [[hybrid]] [[species]] resulting from the mating of a male [[lion]] to a female [[tiger]]. The offspring is generally much larger than either of the parents, averaging a weight of 900 to 1000 lbs, with some individuals known to weigh as much as 1500 lbs without being significantly overweight.

A related animal is the [[tigon]], which is the offspring of a female lion and a male tiger.

Ligers generally possess a combination of traits from both parents, appearing as a clear mix between a lion and a tiger. Males often possess a mane, while both males and females bear brownish stripes from their tiger parent along their otherwise tawny body and face, and cubs may have rosettes from their lion parent. They only exist in captivity because the territories of its two species don't overlap in the wild.

It is sometimes stated by scientists that the liger resembles what the pre-historic large cats known as the European cave lion and American lion had looked like, in both stature and pelage. These species of large cat went extinct approximately 10,000 years ago and are credited to be direct ancestors to both modern lions and tigers.

The females are fertile and the males are sterile. When the females are mated with a lion, they can produce liligers, or when mated with a tiger, they can produce tligers.

== See also ==

* [[Wikipedia:Liger|Liger]] on [[Wikipedia]]
* [[:Category:Liger characters|Liger characters]]

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Hybrid

2023-04-06T19:53:27Z

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:''This article is about the species term. For the person of this name, see [[Hybrid Wuff]].''
A '''hybrid''' is the offspring of [[mate|mating]] two different [[species]], or two different [[breed]]s of the same species.

== Hybrids and furry ==

In the case of [[furry]] [[characters]], a hybrid is frequently a cross of two or more, normally entirely unrelated, species that cannot interbreed in real life, such as [[fox]] and [[wolf]] (commonly called a [[folf]]) or a [[tiger]] and [[Skunk (species)|skunk]]. The latter was popularized among furries by [[Max Black Rabbit]]'s popular character, [[Zig Zag]].

Feasible hybrids that are found amongst the [[furry fandom|fandom]] include the [[liger]] and [[tigon]] and others such as the [[wolfdog]], coydog and coywolf. While most hybrid characters tend to be [[mammal]]-mammal hybrids, there are a few cases that consist of a mix of species of two different [[W:Scientific classification|classes]], this kind being most often a [[reptile]]-mammal and in some cases [[bird]]-mammal hybrids.

==See also==

* [[W:Hybrid (biology)|Hybrid]] on [[Wikipedia]]
* [[W:Liminal being|Liminal being]] on Wikipedia
* [[:Category:Hybrid characters|Hybrid characters]]
* [[:Category:Hybrid species|Hybrid species]]

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Pokémorph

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:''Not to be confused with Pokémorph, a different term, based off of the [[Animorphs]] book series, for humans that turn into Pokémon.''
A '''Pokémorph''' (sometimes called '''anthro-pokémon''' or '''Poké(a)thropes''') is the term used for either a fictional [[anthropomorphic]] species of [[Pokémon]] or a human who can turn into Pokémon. Most Pokémorphs resemble normal [[furries]], except that they were created based on the stock Pokémon creatures. Commonly known as the combination of a Pokemon and a human.

==Species classification==
The type naming for these types of creatures sometimes is simplified to the ''species''-morph format. Although it does not make them easy to identify, they are more commonly seen with this kind of descriptor when it comes to describing what they are. This however, would be moot since the chances of someone not knowing what species they are would be rather low.

==Pokémorphs, furries, and people==
As a general rule, not all people with Pokémorph characters are furries. In point of fact, these people play such characters out of a kind of fandom for the video game they were based on. As such, unless a person with such a character says they are a furry, they should not be considered to be a furry. To them, it is more of an interest in the subject and fandom of the game which is thought of as separate from the [[furry fandom]], although there are some with Pokémorph characters who are actually furries and also have separate furry characters. In some general consensus, the number of actual furs with such characters is low, though this is not confirmed and is subject to shifting even lower, or higher as time passes.

==Pokémorphs in furry culture==
Pokémorphs are usually featured in fictional stories, art (some of which is adult in nature), and also in multiplayer worlds. Currently, there are at least four MU*s which feature Pokémorph characters: [[Pokémorph MUSH]], [[Pokémon World MUCK]], [[Pokémon Fusion]] and [[Pokémon Slide]].

==Creation and Backstory==
===Genetic Experimentation===
Many sources concerning Pokémorphs agree that they are the result of [[human]]s playing God through genetic experimentation (such as the kind that created Mewtwo). This experimentation could sometimes be a simple experiment on egg cells, or a very painful process of replacing parts of a Pokémon's DNA with that of a human and forcing the strands to bond and function. As the process continues, more DNA is altered in such a way, which is a very painful experience for the Pokémon in particular. This pain is not just limited to the injections of the gene altering chemicals and new DNA strands, it is most noticeably from the changes in the subject's physical body as the mutations start to take effect. This kind of pain is inhumane and the subject often loses its sense of identity and memory in the process because of the pain and genetic mutations altering its brain.

This process is not just limited to Pokémon. It has been done on humans as well, with similarly painful results. The procedure used on humans uses genetic mutators directly opposite that for normal Pokémon and has been sometimes called '''reverse morphing'''. When compared, a Pokémorph created from a Pokémon is measured as more powerful than one created from a human. Yet in general, a Pokémorph is more versatile and adaptive than their non-morphed counterparts. They can use more attacks, are faster, can learn human languages and also speak in their species' own native language, and most of all fight better than their non-morphed counterparts.

This unnatural and horrific [[transformation]] is often blamed on Team Rocket, a criminal organization in the video games that seeks to rule the world through the use of Pokémon as simple tools or fighting machines. In fact, many storylines put this group as the direct creators of Pokémorphs through their genetic laboratories with the intention of using them as their new class of agents and strictly as fighting machines for their cause.

Their treatment of Pokémorphs is generally horrific. After morphing, the subject is usually taken to a training center where they are horribly abused physically or starved till they speak nothing but English. When it comes to combat, the abuse becomes more physical at the hands of the Team Rocket members, leaving emotional scarring on many morphs as well as physical ones. Because of this mistreatment, some stories have the Pokémorphs harboring a hatred of humans. Others that don't involve Team Rocket are more neutral, but the general relationship between a morph and a human is an uneasy one.

===Evolution===

Another theory for how Pokémorphs can come into existence is one of pure evolution. Much in the way common ancestors of man and [[ape]] diverged to create these two different species, so too can common ancestors of, say, a Flareon and Flareon-Morph diverge but remain similar, to create two heads of the same coin. Pokémorphs can generally be assumed to have somewhat weaker abilities then their nonmorphic counterparts, but at the same time are far more adaptable due to their ability to use tools, making up for their weakened elemental/power state with adaptability and technology.

This tends not to be as dramatic or angst-filled an explanation for how they came into being, however, and tends not to be used by fanfiction writers and the such. [[PokeWorld MUCK]] uses a version of this theory of Pokémorph development to allow for wild, semi-sentient nonmorphic, and fully anthropomorphic Pokémon to exist side by side.

===Virus===
One other lesser explored theory touched upon in some stories, such as in Mike2115's story [http://www.yiffstar.com/index.php?pid=23764 Pokémorph Virus], is the idea that Pokémorphism originates from a virus spread by an unknown origin, after it had been kept away from the world for centuries, back in a time when Pokémorphs were commonplace. The virus goes airborne and infects Pokémon, with what seems like a form of rabies or the RAGE virus in the zombie horror film [[wikipedia:28 days later|28 Days Later]].

When infected, the Pokémon are quickly turned [[feral]], and they are prone to attacking humans more than normally. They aim to infect the human by biting or scratching the victim. The wounds caused by the infected Pokémon transfers the virus, which has now adapted to mirror the DNA of the Pokémon.

When the infection enters a human body, it normally takes several hours before the process of change begins. The change is slow and painful, as first the body is sent into what appears to be [[wikipedia:flu|flu]]-like symptoms. After these symptoms pass and the immune system is weakened, the virus takes full effect, and strikes the DNA directly. It begins to manipulate the DNA to that of the Pokémon, but leaves the remaining human strands to create a human to Pokémorph change, in a form of reverse transformation. The human body begins to change into the Pokémon that gave the infection, and gains that Pokémon's attributes, while generally maintaining the human mind.

After the physical changes pass, the body goes into comatose, and the mental abilities such as enhanced senses and other chemical procedures in the body are changed, such as the addition of a heat cycle in [[female]]s. The brain adapts to be able to understand some Pokémon speech, depending on the morph.

Once the body is half changed into the originally infected Pokémon, the human- now Pokémorph, awakens after their body has a chance to recharge after the intensive changes. Generally, this takes from four to eight hours of sleep. When awakened, the human will be sentient, and as they adapt further, skills and attacks are learned. Depending on the capabilities, some or all of the host Pokémon moves can be learned at a time, yet is not limited to four.

===Fusion===

In the world of [[Pokémon Fusion]], Pokémorphs are instead a manifestation of a deep bond between a trainer and their pokémon that allows them to fuse. Fusion is the physical joining of an individual and their pokémon, creating one being sharing traits from both. For fusion to be possible, a person and their pokémon much have a bond, a connection of some sort. Usually this only comes about once the person and their pokémon have known each other for a time and know each other well. In rare instances, fusion can occur during states of extremely high emotion, such as ones lift being in danger. Even if there is not a deep bond, if both person and pokémon are in a heightened state, it is possible for fusion to occur.

There are two types of fusion, temporary and permanent. Temporary, as the name implies, is a fusion that can be undone. The pokémon will become part of the human, but will return when the fusion is undone. This fusion is not as strong as a permanent one. Permanent fusions can not be undone. The pokémon will forever be a part of the human. Some people can still shift between their human and fusion form. There is not a limit to permanent fusion, as one can have multiple pokémon within them and be able to choose the form of any. However, the more pokémon one has in their mind, the more confused ones mind might become.

When some people fuse, the human is in control while the pokémon's mind sleeps. In others, the pokémon is in control. For some, they have a voice in their head or their personality is a combination of both. Those who have practiced can allow their pokémon to take control sometimes while they are in control at other times. Since fusion was discovered, some 'natural fusions' have been born. They are fusions who were born as they are, due to one or more of their parents being a fusion. While it is possible, most natural born fusions do not have a human form. Natural born fusions can, however, fuse with other pokémon and seem to be, biologically, the same as permanent fusions.

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Lylla

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'''Lylla''' is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is an anthropomorphic [[otter]] who is the C.E.O. of the biggest toy making company in the universe, Mayhem Mekaniks on the planet Halfworld. She is also the friend and lover of [[Rocket Raccoon]]. She inherited the company after her parents were murdered by Judson Jakes who wanted control of the company. The only way for Lylla to gain full control was through marriage. Lylla soon came under threat not just through Jakes, but also through Lord Dyvyne as they both wanted to control her toy company. Luckily, Rocket Raccoon came to her aid and with the help of their friends, [[Wal Rus]] and Uncle Pyko, defeated both parties. Lylla traveled with Rocket afterwards to start a new life together. These events were later revealed to be false. Lylla, along with the rest of the Halfworlders, were actually service animals who cared for mental patients on their planet. She was also apparently married to [[Blackjack O'Hare]]. She has not been seen since, and her marriage to Blackjack seemed retconned as he reappeared as a deadly mercenary and enemy to Rocket.

==In other media==

====Film====
* Lylla appears in ''Guardians of the Galaxy''.

====Video games====
* Lylla appears in ''[[W:Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series|Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series]]'', voiced by Fryda Wolff.
* Lylla appears in ''[[W:Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy|Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy]]''.

==External links==
* [https://www.marvel.com/characters/lylla Lylla] on Marvel.com
* [https://comicvine.gamespot.com/lylla/4005-77309/ Lylla] on Comic Vine

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