Peculiar Animals

Peculiar animals are, as the name suggests, animals that are peculiar.

History[]

“	“Once upon a time, this world was full of peculiar animals. In the Aldinn days, there were more peculiar animals on Earth than there were peculiar folk. We came in every shape and size you could imagine: whales that could fly like birds, worms as big as houses, dogs twice as intelligent as I am, if you can believe it. Some had kingdoms all their own, ruled over by animal leaders.	”
–Addison MacHenry, Hollow City

Peculiar animals faced many of the same persecutions that peculiar humans did. They were not only prized by trophy hunters, but those with peculiarities of intelligence were suspected to be possessed by demons and suffered the same persecutions inflicted on peculiar humans. Because they would constantly be hunted, their numbers dwindled into near extinction.^[1]

Some ymbrynes such as Balenciaga Wren and Griselda Tern would make menagerie loops for animals to live in. Other ymbrynes would allow peculiar animals to live in their loops in small numbers. For example, Alma Peregrine had a small school of peculiar fish who lived on the outskirts of her loop.^{[citation needed]} Grimbears were a common species outside of menagerie loops, since they were often good with people when trained and the preferred companions of ymbrynes in the northern climes.

There is a book, The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. Ewans, that talks about the persecution of peculiar animals, with species affected including moles, oxen, pigs, dogs, sparrows, and even dolphins. In the thirteenth century, opposing schools of peculiar fish had a territorial dispute which ended up turning into war.^[2]