Natural Instincts and Traits

Lumpy Mooing

Although most of the characters are anthropomorphic, they still have some natural instincts of their real animal counterparts.

Lumpy

• In Out on a Limb Lumpy mooed like an real moose when he was in pain.
  

Sniffles

• Probably one of the most well known instincts is that he tried to eat ants like real anteaters.

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Sniffles on his lunch break.

Splendid

In Helping Helps he was seen harvesting acorns.

Splendid with an Acorn

The Mole

• Like most moles, he lives underground.
• He is blind, the same way most moles are blind or prone to brightness.

Nutty

• Several times he can be heard making squeaky "chittery" sounds (though he makes a lot of strange sounds when he is on a "sugar high").
• He able to easily to climb trees in Take a Hike even after stuffing himself with honey.

Lifty and Shifty

• Like many raccoons, they were seen in a trash dumpster, as seen in As You Wish.
• Raccoons are born natural theives.

Russell

• He eats sea food.
  
• He can swim and hold his breath for a long time (though in Sea What I Found he was supplied with oxygen, it may have been because he was under water for a very long time).

Russell about to eat seafood.

Cuddles

• His ears flop down when he is sad.

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  Cuddles with his ears down

• In hissmoochie and A Bit of a Pickle, he seems to like carrots.

Flaky

• Although she's anthropomorphic, she has the ability to climb trees (which is a real ability of porcupines) in Take a Hike.

Lammy

• Sometimes when she talks, screams, or laugh, she bleats like a real sheep.

Flippy

• He is shown to follow a carnivorous diet like real bears. He is seen drinking the bloody remains of Cuddles (Flippin' Burgers), Mime (Party Animal), and Shifty (Easy For You to Sleigh).
• In Operation: Tiger Bomb, he makes growling/roaring sounds when attacking the Tiger General.

The Ants

Moreso than other characters, they seem to be anthropomorphic crossed with non-anthropomorphic animals, (though Sniffles probably wouldn't try to eat them otherwise). Some examples include:

• They have been seen collecting, like fruit, crumbs, etc.
  
• They live in an anthill.
  
• They only let family members/certain ants enter their nest.

one of the ants collecting bread crumbs

Buddhist Monkey

• Many times he makes monkey sounds, most notably right before he begins a fight.
• Like other monkeys, he is very strong, flexible and athletic.
  

Char Sui

• He made snorting sounds a couple of times.
• He squealed when he was about to die.

Sneaky

• He can change color and camouflage his body (although this could be with the help of technology, as he becomes entirely invisible, or it may simply be a cartoonish effect.), however, the camouflaging ability in real chameleons is just a coincidence, they normally change colour due to their mood (among other things).
• He can climb on/stick to walls.