User blog comment:Magma MK-II/Characters that shouldn't be here, Part 4: Electric Boogaloo/@comment-25008763-20160112134608/@comment-366087-20160113151230

Actually, the first couple of Jaws movies the shark was very close to being a normal animal. As the franchise progressed, the titular shark(s) in question started to act as if on vendettas, with human-like motivations. Forgot which movie, but one crossed an ocean just to find one specific person. At that point, yeah, that critter is not a "simple animal".

I'll repeat that anthropomorphic is *not just* human-like bodies. It is attributing them to a social order and motivations recognizable as human-like. In the world of the 101 Dalmations, all the animals while looking like actual animals, at their level/perception filter, they might as well have been 4-footed humans. Most animal-oriented shows are like that.

And that, I feel, should be the Criteria for Inclusion, as opposed to say, the varied dinos from Primeval, or the Jurassic Park Raptors. They were antagonists, yes. They caused the main conflicts in their stories, yes. But being non-anthropomorphic means they were acting upon instinct, not wickedness or evil.

Okay, on this topic I'm at the point I'm repeating myself, so to avoid coming across as "too forceful", in legal terms "the prosecution rests" awaiting a verdict regarding non-anthropomorphic animal "villains".