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Was thinking about this today, is there any animals left if so what are they

There likely are yes, the galaxy is huge. Indeed some factions make use of them wolves and horses are still present although highly adapted and enhanced compared to their real world counterparts. Other factions also make use of beasts, such as the Kroot.

In the end though most creatures and beasts are simply either too few in number or too weak to really make any effect in the game world enough to have them on the table top. You do have some notable exceptions - for example the Catachan home world/training world has the mighty Catachan Devil.

There is only War!

Kind of a hard question when its pretty vague what your asking.

If your asking if there are other animals other than all the models and things talked about in the different codexs and rulebook then I think that there is some room for expansion of other factions and growth within each faction.

If you are talking about actual animals on the planets (I don't think you are) then no, all animals have been extinct, just joking haha

Rough Riders, Thunder Cav...Fenrisian wolves.

Dark Eldar Beasts could also be considered animals.

The imperial Guard are represented with that Lynx looking cat thing on the Battle Scenario book?

The 40k universe is filled with animals. In some of the art in the 4th ed book an eldar was pictured next to a lynx type animal.

The Catachan come from a world filled with exotic creatures. The only planets devoid of "animals" would be those that have gone through intense warfare such a Krieg, those with extreme climates, demon worlds, and hive worlds.

 Byte wrote:
There is only War!

Nah, not all the time.
And yes there's animals in 40k. Just look at space wolves

The ork squigoth if its still in the codex and no it does not suck

 dakkajet wrote:

 Byte wrote:
There is only War!

Nah, not all the time.
And yes there's animals in 40k. Just look at space wolves

THERE IS ONLY WAR.And orks.

Da krimson barun wrote:

 dakkajet wrote:

 Byte wrote:
There is only War!

Nah, not all the time.
And yes there's animals in 40k. Just look at space wolves

THERE IS ONLY WAR.And orks.

The space marines drink.

Yes, there are plenty of animals.

The reason you don't see much by means of animals is because, unlike humans, most animals are smart enough to go AWAY from a battlefield when the fighting starts. I mean, it's not like you're going to see a herd of sheep peacefully grazing in no-man's land.

Plus, if there weren't animals, there wouldn't be catachan devils or harkoni warhawks or tallarn desert rats.

Also, as a technicality, eldar are animals as well...

I believe Eagles are still around as well. I don't think much else survived the environmental annihilation of earth that was the foundation of the Imperium.

I'm reminded that there is a sect of the Eldar who ride dragons into battle. The Exodite which is their order within the Eldar have been featured in models in the past; but I think it was just the odd model (they might even have only appeared in Epic/Titan Legions). In theory (from what I recall) they've a whole army much like a Space Marine Chapter - its just never really been brought to light (only marines have different chapters )

I will assumed by "Animal" you mean other than humans whom are part of the animal kingdom. Actually I will assume you mean non sentient critters.

@Ailaros
Actually eldar are not animals because they are a not part of the earth ecosystem and so cannot be classified into the animal kingdom. Heck we don't even know if their "hair" is hair or if it is similar to the "hairs" on spiders.

There are all sorts of animals in 40K. The info on catachan and elysians gives you a good feel about the galaxy being filled with animals of all types. DKoK is pretty much the only info that would lead you to think there is no animal life (except humans).

The eldar corsairs even bring pets with them called Gyrinx. And when eldar armies take human allies they always bring their Mon'Keigh beasts with them.

Chaos loves to bring it's hounds with them...they are so friendly they run right up to you.

For orks they bring their entire ecosystem with them.

Countless centillions of them.
There is a whole universe.
Is this post a troll?
In 40k, if you can think of it as an animal, it probably exists somewhere in the universe.

Terra is devoid of any animal life. Krieg, too.

Catachan has all kinds of animals, all of which would rather kill you.

Lots of people, including Eldar as well as humans, keep cats or cat-like creatures as pets.

Psienesis, you're forgetting rats and cockroaches. If you tell me there are none of those left on terra, I will call you... well, not a liar, but gravely mistaken at the least.

Aren't Tyranids in a sense Animals??

Humans are animals as well?

Eldar as well?

Orks maybe not as much...

Tau are animals?

Chaos probably not...

And then you have Jokeareos, Cyber Eagles, Silly Cyber Horses etc...

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Psienesis, you're forgetting rats and cockroaches. If you tell me there are none of those left on terra, I will call you... well, not a liar, but gravely mistaken at the least.

According to the rare glimpses we have of Terra in the various texts, it's been stripped bare of all plant life and even the oceans have been drained. There might be roaches... but, then again, those might have been purged as forerunner organisms of the Tyranid in M28.

Rats were probably all burned at the stake as devolved Skaven.

 Overread wrote:
Other factions also make use of beasts, such as the Kroot.

Although to be fair the Kroot examples aren't so much "beasts" as "other species of Kroot"...that Kroot hound is actually the Kroot packmaster's great great cousin or something.

Kroot are pretty much just Tyranids with a little more civilization tacked on to be completely honest.

ansacs wrote:Actually eldar are not animals because they are a not part of the earth ecosystem and so cannot be classified into the animal kingdom.

Pssh. The word "animal" itself is a human construct used to describe things to other humans - it has nothing to do with reality itself, much less reality bound to the planet earth. Animals are what we collectively choose to call animals, not some intrinsic value of the thing being unwittingly labeled.

I have no doubt that there are imperial ecologists out there who make detailed studies of the various non-terran species they come across, carefully sorting, filing, organizing, and otherwise bureaucratizing them. And then, of course, when they dub eldar as a type of animal, then it becomes heresy to disagree.

I meant as in animals that were not bred for a specific purpose an animal that survived on its own. wolves are alive, horses were bred, jaekero I don't think we're pulled out of the "wild" I mean animals that were completely natural. Would there be any herbivores left? Any predators left? And what do you mean there is no life left on terra? Does it mean the koalas are extinct?

The koalas escaped confinement on Scintilla and due to the waste products from the underhive have mutated into giant maneater beasts that haunt the underhive...

Seriously though many of the wildlife of earth have been taken with earthlings and live on if a little evolved from the form we know.

Then there is massive amounts of new wildlife that even the IoM doesn't know of.

@Ailros
Actually you would have to reclassify what "Animal" means as the classification categories are partially based on what the organism is related to and the entire idea that hair will mean the same thing. What you are saying is true for language in general and I could do the same by reclassifying black to mean white and vice versa. This is unproductive however and it should be noted that it is very likely xenos species are not applicable to the current taxonomy field.

 ansacs wrote:
The koalas escaped confinement on Scintilla and due to the waste products from the underhive have mutated into giant maneater beasts that haunt the underhive...

Seriously though many of the wildlife of earth have been taken with earthlings and live on if a little evolved from the form we know.

Then there is massive amounts of new wildlife that even the IoM doesn't know of.

@Ailros
Actually you would have to reclassify what "Animal" means as the classification categories are partially based on what the organism is related to and the entire idea that hair will mean the same thing. What you are saying is true for language in general and I could do the same by reclassifying black to mean white and vice versa. This is unproductive however and it should be noted that it is very likely xenos species are not applicable to the current taxonomy field.

It's all right guys the koalas are still alive in 40k. They are just a bit... Different

We have to assume that when we encounter alien life, we will appropriately expand our definitions to include them. Otherwise, we may as well start giving them unique names, so we'd have "The Animal Kingdom" (Earth), "The Eldar Kingdom" (The Eldar and whatever kingdom they are related to if any, because the Old Ones created them), etc. Which is silly. It's like saying that trucks aren't automobiles because they aren't cars. Sure, many lifeforms may be sufficiently alien to defy classification, but this is sci-fi. We're not talking the scientific dilemmas of bizarre micro-organisms that are too alien to definitely decide to be "bacteria" or "animal", we're talking about "lizard-wolves of Esten IX, that hunt croco-ducks in the ash plains". Or, you know, the Eldar, who are basically just humans but a bit different.

Moving on, the question is too vague, and probably trolling. However, Terra is most definitely home to pests, it being populated by humans. The only way I can interpret the OP to not be completely idiotic is if the question means "are there any extant Earth species other than humans in 40k?".

EDIT: All koalas died and melded together to form the Emperor in M0.000. Canon.

 Frozen Ocean wrote:
We have to assume that when we encounter alien life, we will appropriately expand our definitions to include them. Otherwise, we may as well start giving them unique names, so we'd have "The Animal Kingdom" (Earth), "The Eldar Kingdom" (The Eldar and whatever kingdom they are related to if any, because the Old Ones created them), etc. Which is silly. It's like saying that trucks aren't automobiles because they aren't cars. Sure, many lifeforms may be sufficiently alien to defy classification, but this is sci-fi. We're not talking the scientific dilemmas of bizarre micro-organisms that are too alien to definitely decide to be "bacteria" or "animal", we're talking about "lizard-wolves of Esten IX, that hunt croco-ducks in the ash plains". Or, you know, the Eldar, who are basically just humans but a bit different.

Moving on, the question is too vague, and probably trolling. However, Terra is most definitely home to pests, it being populated by humans. The only way I can interpret the OP to not be completely idiotic is if the question means "are there any extant Earth species other than humans in 40k?".

EDIT: All koalas died and melded together to form the Emperor in M0.000. Canon.

Oh emperor no, not the koalas can't they be more you know... Better than being frozen on a golden toilet
and ah side note, what do you mean by trolling?

Animals = non-sentient obviously in this context. To even include the Eldar is off topic, unless directly related to animals the Eldar have.

 Overread wrote:
I'm reminded that there is a sect of the Eldar who ride dragons into battle. The Exodite which is their order within the Eldar have been featured in models in the past; but I think it was just the odd model (they might even have only appeared in Epic/Titan Legions). In theory (from what I recall) they've a whole army much like a Space Marine Chapter - its just never really been brought to light (only marines have different chapters )

The exodites haven't had models in 40k (officially released ones, anyway. Conversions abound) but they DID have UNITS in the 2nd ed codex Eldar. Exodite dragon riders.
They existed in epic, though - and the knights were generally used for herding the larger dinos.
I doubt we'll ever see GW release official ones, since they are mostly a conversion of craftworlders, Wood Elves, High Elves and Dark Elves.