Editing Poppy O'Possum (section)

==Biology==
As one would expect, the first questions of a setting featuring anthropomorphic animals (other than "Is it [[Furries|creepy?]]") would be about biology.

Animals of the Poppy universe come in tiers of intelligence; there are boar people present, as well as wild boar-like creatures for example. Animals follow some, but not all, of their real life counter parts in biology. Cat people have six nipples/breasts, Possums have pouches (essentially a second womb for extremely undeveloped young on the belly with nipples inside), reptiles lack <strike>[[Dragonborn|Lizardtits]]</strike> mammary glands, and so forth. 
Specifically on the subject of Possums; they are shown in the comic to be similar to real life possums in that they mature fast, but have shortened lifespans (approximately 30 years rather than 3 years however). Needless to say, this is an important plot point.

There are no sapient fish or insects, although there is an Octopus character suggesting there are indeed sapient aquatic creatures. 

Animal-people have made up for lacking biology with magic. For example, birds use magic to form a phantasmal glove on their wings to manipulate objects with and the aforementioned Octopus binds her tentacles to function in a more bipedal shape. 

Dragons exist in the setting, although rather than assholes who hoard gold and steal princesses or wise ancient intelligent creatures, they are more of the "Nightmare Fuel" variety as a highly feral monster who's biology is rapidly adapting as needed and are almost impossible to actually kill. An example seen thus far is basically a lobotomized ancient dragon who's body is now the site of a monastery/power plant that harvests its corpse for power. Despite being functionally dead, it is still sprouting eyeballs on it's back to track the movement of monks through courtyards. 

Races cannot naturally interbreed; however, by using magic at one of the trees which created their race they can produce an artificial hybrid. These hybrids are not OCDONUTSTEAL Mary Sues however, but are actually undesirables within society and subject to public ridicule and shaming at worst, or at best being considered an aberration (not unlike Japan's view on half-Japanese).