Category:Fauna

Fauna

Definition: the animals of a particular region, habitat, or geological period.

Aquatic

• Packtail -- similar to Terran monkfish
• Fingertail -- a small carp-like fish
• Spiderclaw -- a crab-like creature
• Red Fin -- a large game fish
• Bloodfish -- a parasite
• Snail -- a hard-shelled creature
• Dolphin -- also known as shipfish

Bees

• There are no bees. Bees were brought to Pern, but died out early on. The trundlebug is the most common pollinator on Pern.

Avians

• Wherry

Wherries are a native Avian inhabitant of Pern. They were named by the Exploration and Evaluation Corps team, for they look like airborne barges - squat, fat and full, similar to the vessels that were used to ferry stuff between the English isle and the European continent on old Earth.

• Wherries are very aggressive carnivores, and like most other Pern animal life, have six limbs - two wings and four legs. They have downy tufts of proto-feathers covering membranous wings. They turn aggressive if one of their kind is hurt. Males are called bucks and females are called hens.

• There are two types, inland and sea side; the sea side ones have a fish-like taste and have a large layer of fat just below their skin which is good for making oil to soothe fire lizard and dragon hide.

Firelizard -- also called flit, and occasionally dragonet; gold, bronze, brown, blue, and green varieties

Domesticated

• Llama
• Runner -- horse, draft and race type
• Caprine -- goat
• Ovine -- sheep
• Porcine -- pig
• Bovine -- cow
• Feline -- cat
• Canine -- dog
• Chicken -- exist only in small numbers and where protected from tunnel snakes
• Goose -- same as chickens
• Wher -- a dragonlike creature with small wings

Feral

• Wild Felines -- various sizes and hide patterns
• Whersport
• Tunnel Snake -- several types of these, both with skin and with scales.
• Water-dwelling species of Tunnel Snakes -- poisonous

Insects

• Buzzing Fly
• Firefly
• VTOL -- so-named for its Vertical Take-Off and Landing
• Bedbug -- a stinging pest
• Crawlie -- a tiny creatures with suction cup feet
• Rollie -- similar to a wood louse
• Spring -- an insect that hangs in a spiral loop until it attaches to someone. It can give a prickly irritating bite that must be treated with antiseptic cream.
• Millipede
• Flat segmented worm
• Sandworm -- a burrowing worm
• Earthworm -- a burrowing worm
• Trundlebug -- a pollinator and soil tiller that eats parasites and is very colorful
• Gossamer spinner -- a spider
• Grub