#dbh animals

Alice: Kara, can we go to Mr. Manfred's house to see a giraffe?

Kara: No, we have a giraffe at home.

Android animals, we should talk about them...

During the events of the game we see real live animals and also “android ones” [-now I must admit this was on my list but “Mwolf0Epsilon” beat me to it, lol-]. ~ The most noticeable android animal in the game is the polar bear on Zlatko’s old mansion that we get to interact with.

*[also notice that (maybe for fur or other purposes), the URS12 has a layer of “”real skin”” (much like T-800 terminators), now... we know ‘regular human androids’ have this “liquid memory” that can form their skin and hair, so I’m not sure as to “why” Cyberlife will give the animals a different type of “skin” than humanoid androids, but maybe it’s either cheaper or more convenient]

But watching carefully the canon universe we notice even a magazine that covers the topic. And yes, is not only “polar bears” being androids but a wide range of animals. Including, apparently, even lions (you can see the blue circle on the lion head), turtles, mountain gorillas, African elephants, and "several other species of tiger (as pointed out in the magazine)...

Now we also see domestic Cyberlife android animals (such as the birds on Carl’s house)...

And, to be noticed, Carl seems to have several stuffed animals at his house too (most likely the ones on his room, this might be a wink to “The Taxidermist” episode on “Heavy Rain”, another interactive drama by writer and director David Cage)

And also has “a Giraffe” on the living room (unknown if it’s an android offline or another taxidermy work but since Carl has a “zebra skin” as a carpet... I’m assuming this is was a real giraffe).

And a skeleton on the roof... (presumably a replica of an extinct marine reptile like a Mosasaur).

But that’s as far as we get to see. - Just like Blade Runner (movie, 1982), cybernetic animals might be not only on Zoos but also at domestic houses. - We’re sure guys like Hank will rather a good old real dog like Sumo...

And Rupert seems caring about pigeons... (that are alive, and not androids)

And from all the fish on the tank where Connor saves the “Dwarf Gourami” (here in my country this fish is known as “Colisa Lalia”), it seems to be real fishes in there, not “androids”.

I had aquariums for decades, still do (and I worked for stores), I tend to observe carefully every fish on every game. - This is a community tropical water aquarium. - As it should be, I can see a couple “Neon Tetra” (small, they usually escape the aggression of other fishes in larger groups),

a SINGLE male Betta Splendens (this are “fighting fishes” from Thai, you can’t have more than one male or they fight until one kills the other), several FEMALE Betta (the female is a bit territorial but won’t usually attack other females),

and, of course, a couple Dwarf Gouramis, the bigger one that Connor saves and a smaller one already on the tank. - Fun fact, male and female Betta and Gouramis are from the fish family of “Anabantoidei” (they poses a labyrinth organ), and they can live outside the water for longer periods of time, as long as they’re wet. So even if Connor doesn’t “save the fish”, likely, giving the amount of water on the floor, that fish can stay alive for hours there (unless someone steps on... it that is).

So yeah, android animals are a thing, canonically speaking. There is also real animals, but android animals prove easier to take care, plus, they don’t die or suffer.

Now, there is no canon proof that Cyberlife went “Jurassic Park” with it.

There is absolutely no canon reference about Cyberlife creating “android dinosaurs” (although for fu*k sakes I’ll love to pet an android raptor and you just know it). - So canonically this is NOT a thing. - Having said this, after the revolution (whatever happens), Cyberlife might continue on business thanks to the production of extinct or endangered animals, and this could be a really lucrative business too... maybe not as lucrative as making “human androids”, but will give them the chance to survive as a enterprise per se’.

So you guys, will you have a robotic android pet at home?, will you prefer to see an “android lion” on the zoo?, or you’re going for the real deal “or nothing”..?

PETS

RALPH'S FRIENDS