Zouthern animal
The zouthern animal is a monster class that appears in SLASH'EM, SpliceHack, SlashTHEM, and Hack'EM, and it is represented by the lowercase z glyph (z). The zouthern animals are designated internally by the macro S_ZOUTHERN.
In all variants that include zouthern animals, the zruty, z, is moved to the Y apelike creature class: in NetHack, the zruty is the only member of its monster class.
Common traits
Zouthern animals represent mammals from the "zouthern" (southern) continent of Australia and nearby islands. With the exception of the Tasmanian devil, all zouthern animals may generate as peaceful towards neutral heroes.
List of monsters by variant
The exact list of monsters that make up the zouthern animals changes depending on the variant.
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM and SlashTHEM, the zouthern animal monster class contains the following monsters:
SpliceHack
In SpliceHack, the zouthern animal monster class contains all the monsters from SLASH'EM along with one additional monster:
Hack'EM
In Hack'EM, the zouthern animal monster class contains all the monsters from SLASH'EM along with the drop bear from SpliceHack.
Origin
Zouthern animals are generally based on existing types of wildlife that inhabit the mainlands of Australia as well as its surrounding islands.
