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    I ran a Boarskin Map yesterday, and I got two similar monsters: Territorial Dodo and Territorial Cockatrice. It seems that Dodo's have red around their beak whereas Cockatrices have a black beak. The Cockatrice may also have darker plumage, but I'd have to get that set of monsters to spawn again to confirm.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mysteltain View Post
    I ran a Boarskin Map yesterday, and I got two similar monsters: Territorial Dodo and Territorial Cockatrice. It seems that Dodo's have red around their beak whereas Cockatrices have a black beak. The Cockatrice may also have darker plumage, but I'd have to get that set of monsters to spawn again to confirm.

    Also got that map yesterday!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mysteltain View Post
    Territorial Dodo and Territorial Cockatrice.
    I definitely agree that GENUS: Dodo SPECIES: Dodo/Cockatrice based off of the Dodo Feather / Cockatrice Feather and the fact that the Fat Dodo is clearly a Cockatrice.
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    Would this mean that the Cockatrice genus on the wiki should be changed back to Ziz?

    It makes sense that there's some things that don't always match. Think about it. There's the Great Yellow Pelican in Longstop, but most Pelicans are black and red. That brings us to the question of how do we break down the Ziz family? They're all over the place on colors. They're wildly inconsistent.

    We have Yellow, Black, Blue, and Purple.

    I say Purple is the Axebeak
    Blue is Ziz.
    Black is the Pelican.
    Yellow is.... Something... There's a Yellow Ziz and a Yellow Pelican...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lusavari View Post
    Would this mean that the Cockatrice genus on the wiki should be changed back to Ziz?
    Yeah, that Cockatrice label should exist there at all. That's a type of Dodo and completely unrelated to Ziz in XIV (it was likely the association with FFXI's Cockatrice/Ziz that led to the assumption).

    There are a lot of names for the mobs in the Ziz family and I'm entirely unsure how to sort it out.
    Ziz, Pelican, and Axe/Hammer Beak are the names I see come up the most, but I've yet to find any rhyme or reason to which is which. The Hammer Beak is a different color than the Axe Beak. Ziz have many colors. I've seen two colors of pelican. Chaos! CHAOS!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anonymoose View Post
    Ziz, Pelican, and Axe/Hammer Beak are the names I see come up the most, but I've yet to find any rhyme or reason to which is which. The Hammer Beak is a different color than the Axe Beak. Ziz have many colors. I've seen two colors of pelican. Chaos! CHAOS!
    I think you might be able to narrow this down by ability usage. Like I think the Ziz more commonly use poison breath attacks, there's another that uses Petrify, another that uses Paralyze. Could be completely off base on if this makes a difference or not though.
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