User blog comment:AYET/Animals in OP universe/@comment-3986064-20120906080245

There were a lot of animals in strong world, but what I imagine seeing one day is an island full of BUGS and only bugs. Gigantic ants colony. Warrior hornets which are as big as humans. Not to mention them getting ranked over how strong they are: Worker hornets/Warrior hornets/Killer Hornets/CHAMPION Hornets

Bugzilla too :D

Green Grass Tiger

And those are things I thought about a while ago.

If you want to, I can create about 50 of them for a large variety of islands. It is not so hard you know? You take an existing animal, modify its size, power and looks. Add some special properties to it and then VOILA you have your own One Piece species :D.

Not to mention specific functions animals are very useful like the Den Den Mushi. Everything that has to do with communication has been inserted into Den Den Mushis. Even the dry squid spears that Ikaros used were an animal species used as weaponry. There are also lots and lots of other species from cover stories.

The Cardinal Birds are also really nice to use! It was a creative thing from oda!

Also I enjoy the lovely and incredible variety of animals that appear on One Piece color spreads!!! I think all of them have at least one animal in it! (not sure though... an example that comes to mind is the color spread from the first chapter after TS)

But still, animals play an incredible role in One Piece. Transport... why not even cooking, cleaning and all other daily activities like in the Flinstones!