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Leucrotta
Named as the result of someone laughably mis-identifying it as a Crocotta, the alternate name has stuck, much to the frustration of many Magizoologists who instead call it Sheepmeese. The so-called Leucrotta was named by one Jade Katerina Runcorn, pureblooded witch with no education in Magizoology whatsoever, who was reminded by the creature’s vast mouth of what she had read once, many years ago, of the wide mouth and broad bone-tooth of Crocottas. Believing she had found such a specimen – despite the creature’s herbivorous nature and more cervine form (true Crocottas are almost hyena-like) she recorded it as a Leucrotta and sent a report to Magizoology Monthly. As the creature hadn’t yet been recorded and she was, by all apparent evidence, it’s discoverer, the name stuck, for all it is one of the most egregious misnomers known.
The Sheepmeese Leucrotta are herbivores for all their large size. The pelican-like sac of their mouth is often used to hold vast quantities of cud, which they chew as cattle do, though if threatened they have been known to encompass the heads of attempted predators and suffocate them. Not terribly magical, their horns are known to be conduits through which the creatures can cast something akin to a simple shield spell, which mothers often used to defend their calves. Similarly, the fur around their necks is thick and simultaneously insulating and defensive. Though Sheepmeese Leucrottas cannot be easily domesticated, their manes are sometimes shaved and the wool worked into felting; combined with Demiguise fur it can make for easy-to-enchant fabric that takes illusion and defensive spells well.
(Image from the FB:CoG Art Book)
(Read about Leucrotta in lore over Here, and the pitiful excuse for one in canon over Here. If you think I’m taking the absolute piss of JKR and FBCoG with this post yes I bloody am. It’s really not hard to find resources about the Leucrotta sometimes called Crocotta and none of them describe it as a godsdamned sheepmeese. I hate that I have to include this but PLEASE DO NOT DELETE THE IMAGE SOURCE OR MY CAPTION.)
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