Mechanimal
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The planet Cybertron is home to more than just Transformers. Throughout the multiverse living Cybertronic fauna of many varieties fill its metal ecosystems. Dubbed mechanimals, these beasts fill many of the same niches (and take many similar shapes) as flesh and bone animals on Earth and other organic planets.
Interestingly, though they can be wild or tamed as with organic animals, mechanimals, due to their mechanical nature can also be easily upgraded, altered, or even granted sentience.
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Fiction
Generation 1 continuity family
Wings Universe
Rage created the part-mechanimal minotorons. Flames of Yesterday
Beast Wars: Uprising
The mechanimals had nearly been rendered extinct by the millennia upon millennia of war that had torn Cybertron. It wasn't until Thunderwing inadvertently returned the Underbase to Cybertron that mechanimals began returning, blooming while the rest of Cybertron suffered. The Builders, as was pretty typical of them, saw the ever-increasing animal population just as an infestation. Derailment
Over the next four centuries, the mechanimals only went from strength to strength.
Four cycles into the Grand Uprising, Megatron noticed mechanimals could metabolise their own energon. It was this that inspired him to implement the Beast Upgrade, wherein all Maximals and Predacons would take on far more energy-efficient beast modes based on mechanimals. Not All Megatrons
Live-action film series
During the Great War, the Decepticons experimented on several specimens from Cybertron's wildlife, turning the beasts into reconnaissance scouts. Revenge of the Fallen Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The Movie Universe Dark of the Moon Other creatures, such as Drillers, Dark of the Moon or turbofoxes were turned into beasts of war. Creature of Chaos