Taxonomy of storybook animals

Natural/scientific - animal is portrayed by photograph or detailed accurate painting or drawing in naturalistic setting. Captions describe natural behavior.

Ambiguously artificial behavior - animal is portrayed mostly realistically but captions purport potential human motivations or thoughts.

Animal with some human characteristics - animal talks, walks, wears clothes, reasons, but is clearly an animal of a specific species with species-specific characteristics, both physical and psychological, like a crocodile that sings about eating other animals. May have magical opposable thumbs, either invisible or some repurposed appendage like a claw or feather.

Human in animal skin - character of basically human characteristics, such as walking upright, talking, wearing clothes, in which another animal body could be used without changing the character or its relationship to other elements in the story.