BBC asks "Who are the furries?"

Friday the 13th, BBC News Magazine set out to explain what furries are.

Fursuiter Marshall Woods, former furry con organiser Mark Merlino, FurteanTimes.com writer Ian Wolf, anthrozoologist Kathy Gerbas and furry artist TaniDaReal all give their take on furry fandom. Notably, ms. Gerbas coins the term species identity disorder for those furries who claim to actually be part animal.

All in all it’s a fair and balanced article, which nevertheless receives some odd complaints in the comments section (most baffling is the one from “Reader", who claims that furry fandom is nothing but a “sub genre” [sic] of cosplay).