What is "anthro"

Usage examples of "anthro".

I was a wide-eyed innocent freshman at William and Mary, and Alan was a grad student in anthropology, earning his stipend by teaching an introductory anthro course.

Even a troop of anthros would have had trouble driving off one of these agile, coordinated mobs.

Psychology was beyond the anthros, and every generation had to figure everything out from scratch from basic raw materials and situations.

When they were in season anthros like Patch and Roamer showed sexual swellings on their rumps.

But already the haphazard raft had drifted out of sight of the land, already the anthros had eaten much of the fruit from the drowned mango tree.

But then, on average, every generation of anthros was just a little brighter than the last.

And, unlike the wretched potbelly, the anthros could not digest such coarse fare, and they lost still more fluid in the watery shit that erupted from their backsides.

She and the other anthros would have suffered even more, in fact, if not for the overcast skies that mostly spared them from the glare of the sun.

The anthros, trapped together on this sliver of dryness in an immense ocean, were continually, intensely aware of one another.

The anthros could go one step beyond this: Roamer understood her own rank as junior to Patch, but she also understood the relative ranking of others.

But anthros were very smart socially, and they had a good problem-solving faculty when facing new challenges.

They were heaps of bone and damaged flesh, not much better off than Left, barely recognizable as anthros at all.

It was as if the sun had baked away everything that made them anthros, had stripped them of the gains made painfully in thirty million years of evolution.

Moaning, chilled to the bone, Roamer burrowed into the branches of the mango and huddled, alone, waiting for everything to go away, and for her to be returned to the world she knew, of trees and fruit and anthros.