@Tifa: I have not been everywhere nor looked through all mobs. Do we have swans, peacocks, hippopotamus, dolphins, other whales than orcas?
Whereās the Frogducks?!
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Iām a bit confused. What does Disney have to do with this?
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Hippoās yep in wod, whales yep in cata
Dolphins, swans and peacocks not sureā¦maybe the BE mount qualifies as one of these?
We donāt have swans, we have peacocks, we have dolphins, we have hippos and we donāt have whales.
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Dolphins in BfA. You even get a druid dolphin water travel form. Peacocks as Battle Pet in WoD.
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Thanks too for this. Itāll be preying on my mind all day ā¦
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There is a huge whale boss in cata
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@Namr, Tifa, Gatherix: Thank you all, seems I have some areas to explore still. 
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Thatās a whale shark, not a whale. Whale shark is a fish.
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Well itās whale like which is close enough! There is only elekks and mammoths as elephants also besides the battle pets 
QUACK
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You read stormlight archiveā¦i love the booksā¦and so love you!
This is just loose speculation as Iāve heard it over the years, but some companies obviously donāt want to be too closely associated with other companies. Either because they fear legal repercussions (copyright claims for example), or because they donāt want to square up against the competition (imagine if Blizzard introduced a duck race in WoW, youād likely have to scroll pretty far on Google before you got past all the Disney duck characters and saw anything by Blizzard), or because they donāt envision their company having a certain profile (toy company banning all representation of military and war, for example, to be family-friendly).
And for Blizzard, if I were to wager a vague and uninformed guess, Iād say that they donāt want to allow the possibility of eventually ending up in a position where they face legal action from Disney. So internally they probably have some policies about what canāt be shown in their games (child nudity, ducks, etc.).
But itās just a guess, though Iām leaning toward it myself, that it is a legal-minded policy, because it applies to all Blizzard games ā not just WoW. No ducks, ever.
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I understand, but wouldnāt that only be an issue if theyād implement a duck race? Surely putting ducks as wild critters wouldnāt really be an issue?
Besides, WB has Duffy Duck, so itās not like Disney has a monopoly on duck characters.
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Well thereās probably a slippery slope they want to avoid entirely.
Take Warcraft III.
Blizzard have made a bunch of critters for the game and they need another one for the sake of variety.
Some artist takes half the body of a Gnoll and turns it into a weird frog-like thing and calls it a Murloc. Easy.
Fast-forward 20 years and Murlocs are an iconic part of World of Warcraft and a highly represented profile thatās closely associated with the entire franchise.
Blizzard probably donāt want to create the possibility of that happening with something where they donāt want it to happen. And if you take a quick pulse on this forum alone, then people would definitely build excitement and hype if a duck was to be introduced to the game. More wants more, like with Murlocs.
So itās easier to just not go down that path entirely, because it might be slippery and you donāt know where you end up.
Yeah, and Warner Brothers and Disney competed fiercely against each other for decades. I suspect thatās not the position Blizzard wants to put themselves in.
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Ducks like ponds, in vanilla, putting ducks into a pond wouldāve resulted in a coding mess so they avoided it.
This is the type of Ducks that we might get in Azeroth
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