Again to me they're going more for perception/institutionalized racism with that than reality. Foxes are predators
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and BY REPUTATION "dangerous" but... the ones we actually meet are tiny harmless grifters. Meanwhile the chief of
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police is the most physically intimidating character in the movie, as "prey" with a super non-threatening cheetah
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as a desk sargent, and the most objectively dangerous character is a mafia kingpin shrew. So, baseless stereotype.
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I mean yes it is Problematic that the animals clearly are physically different species
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and this doesn't map onto RL human beings for whom "race" is a social fiction
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but a big part of the point is even in such a scenario ppl's beliefs abt "racial" traits is oversimplified/false
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like the fact that in real animal biology "predator vs. prey" is not a clean, simple or useful category really
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(all animals can and will eat anything for calories if they have to in order to survive)
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Nick, a fox, is a "predator" bc he's in order Carnivora even though foxes are omnivores
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Nick is only ever seen eating fruit onscreen and creators' word is he's supposed to be a vegetarian
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the "night howler" drug is most similar to rabies, which causes any mammal to become violent and bite
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