Is the Branta an actual animal?

[Blackhawk748]

What the title says. The Branta is from Frostburn and I thought it was a real world animal just dropped into DnD. And then I looked it up and apparently its not. Except I swore I've seen an animal that looked like it but now I can't recall what it was.

[MaxiDuRaritry]

Well, there was an animal called the branta, but (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branta_thessaliensis)...

I don't think the real life creature was called that.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/797137202771442108/ and several others that looked quite similar.

[Blackhawk748]

Well, there was an animal called the branta, but (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branta_thessaliensis)...

I don't think the real life creature was called that.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/797137202771442108/ and several others that looked quite similar.

Yes, the most fearsome of creatures. The Goose.

Ah, I was probably thinking of Uintatherium, its got a similar head.

[Maat Mons]

The name and nose-thingies kind of remind me of Brontotheriidae (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brontotheriidae), an extinct horse relative.

[Biggus]

Sivatherium maybe?

Edit: looking at its FB entry more closely, it's a magical beast with the cold subtype, so I don't think it's meant to correspond exactly with any real animal.

[Telonius]

I've found a couple of others after an image search.

Xenokeryx amidalae (https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1204/Is-this-strange-three-horned-extinct-creature-a-giraffe-cousin)

Brahmatherium perimense (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/421086633881905923/)

Both are apparently distantly related to horses and/or giraffes.

[Blackhawk748]

Ah, so we just have a bunch of extinct animals with weird headgear that just sorta look like a Branta. Got it.