How could a shapeshifting species look zoomorphic and human at the same time?

For my a story I'm writing, I have 3 species that are from the same evolution line; Kitsune's, Tanuki's, and Bakeneko/Nekomatas. All three are familiar in the lines of shapeshifiting animals.

Their most distinctive trait is that they can look like a furry/yiff (i.e. zoomorphic) and a kemonomimi, which is what I'm focusing on for this question.

Which got me wondering, would their be a evolutionary reason and standpoint to have their humanoid forms (let's use a Tanuki for an example) that could shapeshift to go to one extreme to another at the same time at will?

Edit: Made it sound less confusing. I'm asking how they could transform to look like human to an anthromorphic form of their animals (cat, fox, tanuki), etc.

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