Editing Furry fandom (section)

===Role-playing===
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{{Main|Fursona}}[[File:Anthro vixen fullbody front.svg|thumb|upright|Cartoon anthropomorphic [[vixen]], an example of a furry character]]
Anthropomorphic animal characters created by furry fans, known as [[fursona]]s,<ref name="Gaudio2008">{{cite news | last = Gaudio | first = Greg | date = August 23, 2008 | title = Lions and foxes and cat-dragons walk on two legs in Beach | work = [[The Virginian-Pilot]] | url = http://hamptonroads.com/2008/08/lions-and-foxes-and-catdragons-walk-two-legs-beach | access-date = 2008-09-07 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090211234713/http://hamptonroads.com/2008/08/lions-and-foxes-and-catdragons-walk-two-legs-beach | archive-date = February 11, 2009 | url-status = live }}</ref> are used for [[role-playing]] in [[Multi-user dungeon|MUD]]s,<ref name="Mitchell1995">{{cite web | last = Mitchell | first = Don | date = March 23, 1995 | title = From MUDs To Virtual Worlds | work = Social Computing Group, Microsoft | url = http://www.mentallandscape.com/Papers_95vworlds.htm | access-date = 2009-11-06 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090519035523/http://www.mentallandscape.com/Papers_95vworlds.htm | archive-date = May 19, 2009 | url-status = live }}</ref> on [[internet forum]]s, or [[electronic mailing list]]s.<ref name="Howells2002">{{cite news | last = Howells | first = Shelley | date = October 1, 2002 | title = Secret lives of strange and furry | work = [[The New Zealand Herald]] }}</ref> A variety of species are employed as the basis of these personas, although many furry fans (for example over 60% of those surveyed in 2007) choose to identify themselves with [[carnivora]]ns.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Gerbasi | first = Kathleen |author2=Paolone, Nicholas|author3=Higner, Justin|author4=Scaletta, Laura|author5=Bernstein, Penny|author6=Conway, Samuel|author7= Privitera, Adam | year = 2008 | title = Furries From A to Z (Anthropomorphism to Zoomorphism) | journal = Society & Animals | volume = 3 | pages = 205 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://zuender.zeit.de/2008/36/furry-eurofurence-horrorfurence |title=Och, sind die süüüüß! |access-date=2008-09-06 |last=Werner |first=Christian |work=Zeit Online Zuender |publisher=Zeit Online |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906005232/http://zuender.zeit.de/2008/36/furry-eurofurence-horrorfurence |archive-date=2008-09-06 |url-status=live }}</ref> The longest-running online furry role-playing environment is ''[[FurryMUCK]],'' which was established in 1990.<ref name="dog">{{cite book | last1 = Mulligan | first1 = Jessica| last2 = Patrovsky | first2 = Bridgette| year = 2003 | title = Developing Online Games: An Insider's Guide| url = https://archive.org/details/developingonline0000mull | url-access = registration | publisher = New Riders| isbn = 1-59273-000-0| pages = [https://archive.org/details/developingonline0000mull/page/452 452]| quote = 1990 [...] ''FurryMUCK'' opens.  It features avatars who are anthropomorphic animals.}}</ref> Another popular online furry social game is called ''[[Furcadia]]'', which was created by Dragon's Eye Productions.