Fiction about animals

thumb|200px|Anthropomorphism|Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese, Egypt, Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphised, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson, which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying.