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Can Zoanthropes start on the board in an escalation game? They are living artillery. Does this classify them as artillery?

No, they are still infantry, therefore they deploy in esclation. all Living Artillery does is make them non-scoring.

What about biovores? Can they be deployed?

Look in the very back of the rulebook, there is a classification list of every unit type in the game. If the unit is classed as "infantry" then it deploys on the table in Escalation.

The only item that isn't correct on that list for Tyranids are Warrriors with Leaping. The new codex changed that so that Leaping no longer automatically makes a unit "Beasts" (so Leaping Warriors are still "Infantry").

I think that raveners are also incorrect because it states in the tyranid codex that they are beasts.