"Funny Animal" is a term that existed before "Furry" was coined to describe the use of humanized animal character. Being that Fred is an older fellow that's the term he grew up with.
In my understanding, in the modern usage, "Funny Animal" has been used to describe the use of animals in the way where you could technically replace the anthro animal with a pure human character and the story would still work. Particularly within the genre of writing. For instance, the Redwall series is more "Funny Animal" than say Watership Down. You could replace the characters of Redwall with humans and the story would not fall apart for the most part, where as Watership Down, the characters have to be rabbits or it would not work.
Technically some of the items listed of discussion in this book are probably not Funny Animals (Pokemon), but that's probably where the 'and more' part of the title comes into play.
"Funny Animal" is a term that existed before "Furry" was coined to describe the use of humanized animal character. Being that Fred is an older fellow that's the term he grew up with.
In my understanding, in the modern usage, "Funny Animal" has been used to describe the use of animals in the way where you could technically replace the anthro animal with a pure human character and the story would still work. Particularly within the genre of writing. For instance, the Redwall series is more "Funny Animal" than say Watership Down. You could replace the characters of Redwall with humans and the story would not fall apart for the most part, where as Watership Down, the characters have to be rabbits or it would not work.
Technically some of the items listed of discussion in this book are probably not Funny Animals (Pokemon), but that's probably where the 'and more' part of the title comes into play.