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The body type of an animal character that is depicted in its natural (real-life species) form.

While four legged locomotion is very common among ferals, methods of locomotion found among ferals can include any number of legs or no legs at all. In cases where the line between feral and anthro is subtle, the difference can usually be determined by the neck and shoulder shape, and the overall posture.

• Feral may cover mythological and fictional species as well if they resemble real life animal species in both features and body form. This also applies to monsters and robots that closely resemble real life animals.

 ^{(example: fictional canid-like species must be quadruped to be tagged feral as all real-life canid species are quadruped)}

• Please note that non-animal characters such as plants or animated objects should never be tagged as feral, unless they are animal hybrids or otherwise strongly resemble animals.

• Please note feral is a physical body form tag only, a character's mental faculties or sapience are not considered when tagging feral.

Not to be confused with:

• animate_inanimate
• human
• humanoid
• animal_humanoid
• monstrous_humanoid
• quadruped
• taur

Tags About Ferals

See also:

• ambiguous_form
• anthro
• human
• human_faced_feral
• humanoid
• semi-anthro
• taur

• tag_group:body_types
• tag group:anatomy
• tag_group:feral_anatomy
• tag group:species

Forum discussion:

• forum #189471 - Advanced tag discussion: Mutually-exclusive Body Types/Styles (Apr. 2016)