Where did the animals go?

[Sashi]

With all the comments about animal companions and druids being in the #2 wave of core books, I expect to see a fair amount of animals in the MM2.

I'm expecting there to be an animal companion "class", or even multiple classes, fulfilling different roles, possibly with a list of specific appropriate abilities to give them, so no more "my animal companion is a huge crocodile with improved grab" cheese.

I seriously doubt there will be big tables of animals like there were in 3.X "here is a wolf. Here is a riding dog, also known as Wolf+2STR"