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Because I'm sick of arguing about this in the forums.Let's get some things straight here: All Furry is Anthro, but not all Anthro is Furry. The Chart breaks everything down thusly:
Anthro covers every possible thing you could turn into a humanoid, from superintelligent shades of blue to your pencil, and even covers various things like your tattoos coming to life. Machines, Animals, and Plants, in non-anthro form, are all what they sound like. Anthro machines are Droids, anthro plants are Treants, and Anthro Animals are Furries. Combining Droids and Furries gives us Cyborgs, while the same combination outside of the Anthro spectrum gives us virtual pets like Aibo. Plants don't really merge with Machines or Animals too well.
So, there you have it, in nifty Venn Diagram form: All Furry is Anthro, but not all Anthro is Furry. If you insist on telling me your cartoon kitties are Anthro but not Furry, I'll be directing you to this.
If you're drawing animals with human traits, it's Furry regardless of how cartoony or sexualized it is. GET OVER IT.
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Wow, I entirely forgot anthro meant anthropomorph. I want to see more Treants.
Do you remember what anthropomorphic insects and bugs are called?
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I think technically bugs are animals, so they could be in the same category.
But of course I could be wrong.
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Bugs, insects, and spiders are all Anthropods. They all belong under Animalia along which is obviously animals, mammals, and such. So you're right. It's all the same catagory. But I'm not sure that answers what anthropomorphic bugs are called. XD
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I think they may be called "insectoids".
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Oh, that would make sense. :3 Thank you!
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true...it's probably a sub-category.
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Interesting. Interesting. i have a question.
If you have. a regular.. human being.. but replaced the eyes with mammal-like ears... or put a tail on the tail bone... would THAT be considered a furry? And if it's a yes, would that mean that there are DEGREES of.. Furry-ness? o_o;;;
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Technically, yes.
The term is "Petting Zoo People", but they're to Furries what Star Trek's Rubber Forehead Aliens are to ... well, aliens.
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So are there degrees of furryness?
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you've never seen the "10% Furry" pic?
Most Petting Zoo People are defined as "Not Furry", but they still have some furry elements, so...
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Oh, okay.
Uhm, no, i've never seen the "10% furry" pic. >_>;
i'll check it out now though. C:
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actually what your referring to is called "Kemonomimi" which associates humans and gives them animal traits like slit eyes, fluffy ears, a tail. It's actually is more of "reverse" anthro (meaning your givine a human other things' traits, not giving things human traits.) so you can't technically call them furries, in fact, anthro is basically the personification of objects or animals. where do i get this stuff? WIKIPEDIA
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...X'D! I see! Thanks for the two cents. It was worth million~ :'3
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Furries. They're STILL anthro animals on one level or another, after all...
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but the dragons or the avian creatures doesn't have "furs", so is correct the word "furrie" for all the anthros creatures?...I dont think so
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It gets lumped in there, but it's sort of a "inside" thing....dragons and such would be considered "scalies" and a whole slew of different terms for Avians.
I think the chart is simply to point out the different between anthro and it's categories....adding every sub-category of anthro would take forever, but the chart gets the gist of it.
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Dragons and other mythical creatures are still classified as "furry". You can just see furaffinity.net, it's loaded with dragons and other fur-less creatures. But, you could also just classify a dragon anthro as a "dragonic" or a particular race, and Avian anthros are normally Avian-kin. The "-kin" works for just about any creature.
I don't know why. I'm not sure everyone rightly does. However, it all boils down to that usage of furry just means anthropomorphic animal. It doesn't mean is has to have fur.
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It all gets lumped into the furry fandom is more of my point, really.
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This is just cool... more people should hace this hanging on there wall or some such.
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It's a bit of a catch-all, the way "White" used to only refer to Anglo-Saxons and now pretty much covers anyone from Europe and Russia.
Them's the Breaks.
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>O I accept!
I'm still using the term anthro-animal for my furries, though, thanks to all of those idiots who think that furry means Yiff.
But an anthro plant... hmm, I haven't seen one of those since Cosmo on Sonic X. I'll have to try that.
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I do feel the chart is a tiny bit inaccurate but only in the sense that some bubbles need to over lap just a few others. Other than that, it's pretty good and I love it.
The basic over all message as I see it is (oh, let's get all artistic) that anthro is like the color red and animals are like the color blue and 'furry' is the color purple. Many different values, shades, tints and the like exist within it but if it's purple... it's furry.
Bah... maybe I'm getting redundant. The over all point is that I agree.
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You and a whole lot of other people lately...
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Don't you mean its anthro regardless, instead of furry? Afterall, you did mention that not all anthro is furry but all furry is anthro...
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I linked around a bit and found this
It's quite a good chart I must say. And I love that the furries zone got labeled "OMG FURRIES!"
I understand it would be hard using the areas you had, but a cyborg is in most cases a robotic human but I guess humans fall under the animal category... being animals and all I mean 
I still think people are gonna use anthro as a general term when talking about anthropomorphic animals though...
Anyway, good job with this
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I use usually only furry. anthro doesn't roll off the tongue well, and I learned furry first. and anthropomorphic does mean to give human qualities, so if I gave, say, a refrigerator arms, legs, a face, and a human voice, it could loosely be considered anthro. that's how I see it, at least.
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The classification of "cyborg" is a bit off, since it is short for "cybernetic organism." Meaning any machine / living creature hybrid. Not like droids, which are just machines with human traits, but actually combining the two realms. Asimov's "Bicentennial Man" would be a cyborg. Doesn't have to just be machine-furry crosses.
But other than that, I think it's a good chart, nice representation of what the terms mean.
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Also wanted to point out that, unlike the other three spheres, "Anthro" is not really a class by itself; it needs something to attach to. Animals, Plants, Machines, they all exist on their own, but Anthro is a prefix. You can't have an Anthro, all by itself. It's sort of like a modification. An Anthro-animal; an anthro-machine; an anthro-plant. It means "to give human qualities." An "anthro" by itself would just be a human.
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Fair enough, but then I have a hard time venn-diagramming anything if I have a class that only exists within other classes. :-p
Just think of the 'anthro-everything else' as covering all the things I forgot to add spheres for if it helps you.
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With the terms strictly defined like this you made me wonder how do you call anthro viruses, anthro protozoa or anthro fungi
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... annoying? :-p
I'm not sure what you'd say about talking germs, through I think 'Toadstools' work well for anthro fungi, if only because of Mario.
The main reason for this was to get people to stop using the term 'anthro' instead of furry. If you want to expand this to try and make it more complete, that's cool.
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Nice chart.
I don't draw much that could be considered either anthro or furry, but I really hadn't thought of the distinction in these terms before. You are 105% correct however in your separation of the terms.
Good to keep in mind!
Now of course, I'd like to see what would be included in a similar chart of the factions within the furry desination from "ooo kawaii catgirl <3" to "is it actually legal to draw that?".
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I don't even know where I would begin with such a chart. XD
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This may prompt me to remove the stamp I found that says "Anthro art, not furry" from my journal. 
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All I know is, Furry is a LOT more common term than anthro if you're looking to get noticed. I'd just as soon ditch the anthro terminology and accept Furry for what it is.
I'm no fan of the Yiff either, but hey, whatcha gonna do?
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Is there no edit button? What I meant was that there are combinations between animals and plants but plants and machines are less common. This makes them more intresting, especially when you consider organic computers and AIs.
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... I really didn't feel like doing a 4-way Venn Diagram...
And I'm not sure what words you'd use for such a pairing. I'm sure you could come up with one, I just have no clue.
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What about a mix between plants and machines?
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