Most animals of Taranche are similar, if not identical, to the same sort of animal found on earth.  In addition, Taranche is home to some unique types of creature, both normal and otherwise.  I've divided up the various creatures of Taranche into several different categories, listed on the left.  I know that plants aren't animals, but I am listing the new plants in the Bestiary anyway.  Likewise, diseases aren't generally thought of as animals, but this seemed to be the best place to put them.

The bestiary lists mundane creatures.  While some of them can be used as "monsters", for the most part they do not require a writeup as such because of their basic mundanity (when you reduce a Chayk bear to its essential core, for example, you're just talking about a grizzly.)  Likewise, creatures considered "monsters" are not listed in the bestiary because of their unusual nature.

There are some important changes to how people view animals, however:

• Nearly every sentient race found on the land uses domesticated dogs, in many varieties and types.

• Horses have been bred and shaped by their environment, and nearly every civilization uses them to some extent.  There are some civilizations (specifically the ones living in the deep jungle and on the outskirts of the Emerald Forest) who do not use horses but rather use a large, domesticated reptile called a t'shrandi, similar to a triceratops that was shrunk to the size of a draft horse.

• Exactly which animals are considered food or not differs from people to people.  A Barind, for example, wouldn't hesitate to eat a crab, while a Rostok would stare in disgusted horror at the Barind while he did so.  On the other hand, any Rostok with culinary skills has three or four recipes for horse meat in his head, a fact that a Barind would find rather disturbing.  And both Rostok and Barind would find the Taoric taste for frog legs and snails to be bizarre.

• Housecats in the modern sense do not exist, as small hunting cats were never domesticated.

• Pretty much all of the standard farm animals exist, in various breeds.

• The common folk of the Taranche tend to classify animals in three ways:  as household beasts (dogs, cattle, chickens, and so on), as vermin (rats, mice, squirrels, and so on), or as dangerous threats (wolves, tigers, etc.).  The idea of the nobility and grandeur of the animal kingdom has not caught on with anyone but a few select priesthoods.