A community of people that likes fantasy creatures that display both human and animal traits also happens to like alien creatures that display both human and animal traits? I don't get why that is so surprising to some. I think lines are quite artificial when some people draw them between what counts because it meets some threshold amount of real animal basis and what doesn't count because it is a made up creature with many of the same traits. At least I assume you are not making a blanket statement that all aliens are excluded like some do, as that would exclude Star Fox...
Why does it even need such a sharp boundary and can't be something fuzzy? So you could say that something is quite furry, but not part of the core canon, or that something else is only furry-ish, instead of arguing over placing everything into a "furry" and "not furry" bins.
A community of people that likes fantasy creatures that display both human and animal traits also happens to like alien creatures that display both human and animal traits? I don't get why that is so surprising to some. I think lines are quite artificial when some people draw them between what counts because it meets some threshold amount of real animal basis and what doesn't count because it is a made up creature with many of the same traits. At least I assume you are not making a blanket statement that all aliens are excluded like some do, as that would exclude Star Fox...
Why does it even need such a sharp boundary and can't be something fuzzy? So you could say that something is quite furry, but not part of the core canon, or that something else is only furry-ish, instead of arguing over placing everything into a "furry" and "not furry" bins.