D&D General Should the Platypus be a creature created by wizards, and the Capybara be Small Giant Space Hamsters?

[Kobold Avenger]

This is related to the idea that Owlbears must somehow be creations of Wizards because they're a combination of different animals. Well we have the Platypus a creature that's a weird combinations of something like a Beaver with a Duck, surely that must be just as magical as an Owlbear.

And if Hamsters are really Miniature Giant Space Hamsters, then wouldn't a Capybara be just a small-sized Giant Space Hamster?

 

[Oofta]

Shh!! You weren't supposed to tell anyone!

 

[Jolly Ruby]

The truth is ducks are a platypus-bird hybrid.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

Capybaras are their own kind of creature. No one who has encountered a Giant Space Capybara has ever returned to tell the tale.

 

[Oofta]

The real origin of the owlbear is that when a mommy bear and a daddy owl love each other very much ... hmm ... never mind. Gotta keep posts PG.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

A giant platypus would 100% fit into OD&D or the 1E Monster Manual.

"Also, it has a poison attack."

"Gary, let's at least try and make it realistic."

 

[Shades of Eternity]

Yes, most of these are creations of the great wizard Ze Frank and he has done so much, much more.

 

[Tonguez]

Owlbears are a robust theropod that have taken to a quadraped gait due to their upperbody bulk, they are related to both Griffons and Krenshar

Platypus are a hoax

 

[Richards]

And here I thought the platypus was just the larval form of a thought eater....

Johnathan

 

[Mecheon]

Capybaras are very different to hamsters

Also if you look at a platypus' skeleton any notion its a chimaera falls right away. They're just weirdos