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I mean, this can definitely be a source of confusion for them in-universe. I imagine people might say something like that and then have to clarify like "oh I meant a regular fox" or "feral fox" or whatever

I think the actual practical answer for me in my writing is that I just don't tend to have the characters refer to each other by species much. This is partially because the animal stuff is very mundane to them, and partially because I think the dialogue sounds way more natural if I leave out stuff like having characters call Melody a "vixen" or whatever instead of just calling her a woman. If I was to write a prose story, i would probably not be tagging many Jodie lines with "said the tiger"

(If you were to scrub through the entire script you'd find that it's actually somewhat rare for the beast folk characters to even acknowledge that they're animals. It's something that they don't tend to dwell on. It's the non-beast folk characters who tend to find it more worth remarking upon.)

Ipsy is just an elf. I would have just said that it's a random quirk she was born with. No rule saying we can't give sharp teeth to an elf, or any other species for that matter.

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