These animals are a notch higher than theNearly-Normal Animal,Speech-Impaired Animal, andTalking Animal, but not quiteCivilized Animals. They'rePartially-Civilized Animals!

Like theNearly-Normal Animal,Speech-Impaired Animal, andTalking Animal, thePartially-Civilized Animal is very much an animal when it comes to thought processes, personality, instincts, priorities, and motivations. They are more frequently depicted as just walking on four legs than onwalking on two legs orwalking both ways. Quite a few of them can walk on two legs as well they can on four legs, but they still normally walk on all fours. Like theCivilized Animal, they may wear a few accessories or articles of clothing (often in pantless fashion) and often have some sort ofMouse World.

Partially-Civilized Animals can make human-like arm and hand gestures and many can grasp objects as if they have opposable thumbs. Some are bipedal even if their species isn't naturally so, but many others are depicted as staying on four legs if they are a four-legged animal inReal Life. LikeNearly-Normal Animal,Speech-Impaired Animal, andTalking Animal birds,Partially-Civilized Animal birds can haveFeather Fingers, but their wings have to look completely like wings.

Unlike theNearly-Normal Animal,Speech-Impaired Animal, andTalking Animal,Partially-Civilized Animals exhibit some form of civilized manner, usually to a lesser degree than theCivilized Animal, and often have some form ofMouse World. Unlike theCivilized Animal, the majority of the mannerisms are that of the animal and they are more likely to be four-legged than two legged if they are naturally four legged.

This is between theCivilized Animal and theNearly-Normal Animal,Speech-Impaired Animal, andTalking Animal on theSliding Scale of Anthropomorphism.

Anime andManga

• Almost all of the animals inKimba the White Lion.
• The goats and wolves fromArashi no Yoru ni.

Film

• The rats inRatatouille
• The peguins inHappy Feet
• The dogs inAll Dogs Go to Heaven
• The cats inGay Purr-ee
• The animals inCats and Dogs
• Scuttle, Sebastian, and a lot of the other marine animalsThe Little Mermaid
• The geese and cats inThe Aristocats
• King Louie the orangutan and the monkeys inThe Jungle Book
• The animals in the twoIce Age sequels
• The owls in theLegend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
• Timon and Rafiki are this in the threeThe Lion King movies, but they areCivilized Animals in the TV seriesTimon and Pumbaa.
• The animals inRio
• Rattlesnake Jake and the armadillo fromRango
  • And Rango himself, especially since he was actually originally someone's pet...
• The animals fromMadagascar and its spin-offs have the animals using crude tools, wearing simple clothes and occasionally going bipedal. But there is no doubt that they are animals, and they can't speak with humans.
• The goats and wolves inArashi no Yoru ni.

Literature

• Warrior Cats is a bit hard to put on theSliding Scale of Anthropomorphism, but most probably this level.
• Who Moved My Cheese? is told from the point of view of twolittlepeople. They share a maze with two mice that still act on mouse instinct and can't talk to littlepeople other than through gestures, but the mice do wear (and can tie) shoes.

Video Games

• Red XIII fromFinal Fantasy VII walks on four legs and generally acts like the ...pumadogthing he is, but at the same timeable to talk,extremely intelligentand wears a hair decoration.
• The Bunny Children fromEpic Mickey are this, even thoughOswald the Lucky Rabbit (their father) and Ortensiathecat (their mother) are full-fledgedFunny Animals.

Web Comics

• The canines inWurr at first seem likeTalking Animals... then we find out that the dogs are in the Bronze Age.

Western Animation

• Dog fromWord World is a non-talking, four-legged dog, but he owns a house.
  • Most other four-legged residents, including Elephant and Tiger, belong in this trope, too.
• The Dog Star Patrol fromKrypto the Superdog.
• Perry the Platypus fromPhineas and Ferb.
• The ponies inMy Little Pony andMy Little Pony Friendship Is Magic are this; the fact that they are ponies often happens to be a plot point.
• Most of the animals inSagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat.
• Coco the monkey fromMickey Mouse Clubhouse walks on two legs and wears a skirt, a strapless top, and a bow on her head, but she is mostly a "normal" monkey otherwise.
• The dogs and other animals101 Dalmatians: The Series
• The animals inMama Mirabelle's Home Movies, especially the titular character.
• Precious the cat fromPinky and The Brain.
• Scooby Doo is normally aspeech-impaired, but otherwise normal animal, can fall into this trope sometimes.
• Most of the dinosaurs and other animals fromDinosaur Train,zig zag between this trope,Talking Animal,Civilized Animal, andFunny Animal.
• The farm animals inBarnyard andBack at the Barnyardzig zag between this trope,Civilized Animal, andFunny Animal.
• Paco the parrot fromMaya and Miguel is this, unlike the other animals.

• Trope
• Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism
• Partially-Civilized Animal
• Animal Anthropomorphism Tropes