This section covers the animals that evolved on Pern, or which were engineered from native species. Thread wiped out many of the larger terrestrial species long before the planet was colonized, but those animals capable of flight or deep burrowing, or those associated with water, rocky areas or the Snowy Wastes, came through largely unscathed. Some have been domesticated but more exist only in the wild.
Pernese animals may be identified by a six-limbed body-plan, compound eyes and green blood or ichor; another distinguishing feature is that while the reproductive organs are situated between the hindmost limbs as in Terran animals, the excretory opening is at the end of the tail. For the purposes of this guide, native animals may be separated out into several broad categories: aquatic species, crawlers, wherries, and firelizards and their relatives.
Written by Holly Hutchinson & Smitty of Logres Weyr; reprinted with permission
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