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The most noticeable human characteristic projected onto animals is that they can talk in human language
Physically, animal cartoon characters and toys made after animals are also most often deformed in such a way as to resemble humans
This is achieved by showing them with humanlike facial features and deformed front legs to resemble human hands
In more recent animated movies the trend has been to show the animals in a more “natural” way
However, they still use their front legs like human hands (for example, lions can pick up and lift small objects with one paw), and they still talk with an appropriate facial expression
A general strategy that is used to make the animal characters more emotionally appealing, both to children and adults, are to give them enlarged and deformed childlike features