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Domestic Feline: Descendants of the Terran tabby-cat, but about twice as big. Useful in controlling the numbers of tunnelsnakes.

Domestic Canine: Descendants of the Terran dog. Used to guard homes, herd livestock, turn spits or even as small pack animals. They also help keep vermin like tunnelsnakes out of holds and homes.

Runnerbeast: The descendant of the Terran horse. Used as transportation and as pack animals mostly.

Ovine: A type of herdbeast descended from Terran sheep. Used for meat, wool and milk. ICly called either ovines or sheep. Males are called rams and females are called ewes.

Caprine: A type of herdbeast descended from Terran dairy and meat goats. Used these days for milk, meat and wool...as well as for keeping brush down in areas where brushfires are a problem. Called caprines or goats. Males are called bucks and females does.

Wild Canines: Huge wild descendants of feral canines left behind when the colonists moved to the northern continent. Found only on the southern continent.

Wild Feline: Found only on the southern continent, these large wild felines and extremly dangerous and untamable. They are descendants of Terran cheetahs that were given Mentasynth to make them more empathic, but the affects of Mentasynth on felines made them a danger to human and animal alike.

Crawlers: A small, six-legged, gecko looking creature that crawls along walls and even ceilings with their sticky feet.

Grubs: Lumpy, furry little grubs that have spread throughout the southern continent. They are known both for their eating of thread and their benefical affect on the plants around them.

Wrigglers: Native worms much like earthworms.

Trundlebugs: A useful insect that eats parasites, turns the soil and acts as a pollinator. They have the most elaborate color camouflage of all the insects found on Pern and come in many colors.

Crawlies: See crawlers.

Rollers: A type of wood louse.

Spinners: Native species of Pernese spiders. There are also imported species decended from ones brought by the colonists whose silk can be gathered and spun like silkworm silk, though not quite as fine. Called gossamer spinners.

Firelizards - Firelizards are the original dragon. Kitti Ping created the dragons we know today from these tiny creatures. They can flame, if they chew firestone, they go between, they share emotions and images with their people; rather than communicating like the dragons do. They vary in color and size from gold, bronze, brown, blue and green.

Wild-wherries: Large predatory avians. They have four legs and two wings, but instead of feathers, they are covered in thick proto-feathers, multiple tufts like a Terran Marabou stork. They are twice the size of a Terran turkey and turn cannibal when one of their number is wounded or killed.

Domestic-wherries: Either wild wherries with their wings clipped to prevent flight or flightless descendents of wherries captured and breed by the original colonists much like wild turkeys were domesticated by Terrans.

Watch Wher: Impressable creatures bioengineered by Wind Blossom Ping in an attempt to improve on Kitti Ping's design of the dragons, resulting in ugly, malformed, photophobic, flightless dragons. They grow to about the size of a runner and can move with surprising speed. Used by Holds and Weyrs as guard animals. Also useful in exploring tunnels with their superior night vision. They do not die when their masters die and often stay loyal to the family that owns them. The live about 60 - 100 turns. Intelligence is low, about that of a 2 year old child at best. Their names are always like their handler's name, always ending in sk.

Tunnelsnake: A snakelike creature with a turtlelike face and six limbs. Most are poisonous and live in caves and stony outcroppings. Most adverage 2-4 feet in length. Some have scales, some have skin, but most have six stubby limbs for creeping along tunnels. There are even water dwelling species.