Plants and Animals

The Bakemlox beetle is a large beetle, roughly palm-sized which originates from the jungles of Lararey. In nature, it is comparable to a bombardier beetle as it will release a poisonous, noxious cloud when startled or attacked. While this initial solution isn't strong enough to kill humans, it can be extracted from glands and distilled into a more concentrated form. It is useful in combat as it can kill or seriously maim anyone who inhales it. The taste and smell is foul so isn't particularly useful as a secretly administered poison. Typically, it is stored in glass vials and thrown, similarly to Molotov cocktails.

Eusocial spider species in Milynv

A giant orange spider from that dream I once had. Marbled orange transparent egg

The cat is non-native to the East whilst the West didn't have dogs. For example, Yvinndt doesn't have wolves but rather snow leopards and caseiks. Caseik-mikei are the domesticated form and resemble Nebelung cats. In the Lensbrook Convention, a major ceremony was the exchange of gifts. Most of them were pretty standard but the Tohil of Greater Riw presented the dignitaries of the East with a tohilly cat. This was meant as a passive aggressive insult as Westerners value their birds over their cats. However, the Eastern leaders and their citizens were very happy with the gift. This started a cat craze, where no self-respecting person wouldn't have a cat. Like Egyptian fever but two centuries earlier and with cats - cats in art, cats in architecture. The subsequent rivalry between cats and dogs is often used a humourous analogy for East-West relations.

Polar bears are found in the northern Tervan Isles, Tylle and northern Yvinndt, as well as in Ras Ghenupp. Except they're slightly larger than existing polar bears and called Tyllean greatbears or davypraz.

Ohomikkos are tiny brontosaurus looking things on the Quange Arm

Whales have been slightly altered. They are bigger and different through their more angular (sleek, streamlines) shape and really tough skin. Hell, maybe I'll stick in an extra pair of fins on some species. The hide cannot be pierced by regular swords, bullets or harpoons so it is highly prized as bulletproof armour and airship armour. The only tool strong enough would be the extremely developed hidepiercer mechanism for whale hunting vessels. As well as generally more angular shapes, other species include Leviathans, leatherhides, grand leatherhides, hammerheads and Haxamic beetle whales.

Sutton's sea swan is a swan that swims in the sea. Slightly darker in colour.

Intelligent ants - usage of simple tools and farms. Military tactics. Traps for prey. Workers observed playing. Tens of millions per colony. Milynv

Elephants are only native to the jungles and savannahs of the West and caused quite a stir in the East - as such they are common sights in menageries. By the regional powers, they were used both ceremonially and militarily, as a complement to those ostrich things.

The Great Auk can still be seen in Tylle and the Thwaitian Ocean

Fiery albatrosses have gone extinct, hunted to extinction after the Great War. On the other hand, the passenger pigeon is still hanging around. In the south, there is a related species which soar in great colourful clouds above the skies of Lillica and Ancota, like starlings.

Gorillas are present in Lararey and southern Kohia.

Mime birds, different coloured beaks

Wheatwings

Domesticated
Pack animals are
 * The Alerician horse, spreading across to Doracnia
 * The Tyllean molletoc and jannetoc. The toc is a wild species of deer native to the Tyllean southern plains resembling irish elk. Humans domesticated the toc and transformed it along two pathways. The jannetoc is fast and military. It has slender antlers with front facing horns, often armoured and is generally lean and muscular. The molletoc more resembles a moose, with thick, spread antlers netted to carry even more goods. Rather than the jannetoc's leanness, the molletoc is stockier, sturdier, slower and more of a pack animal.
 * The Kasperek (needs a region name) big bird thing
 * A Hatagan equivalent of a non-ridable alpaca.