Always bothered me that Draenor has morphologically identical creatures to Azeroth. We’re talking very highly specific creature types like chimera, faerie dragons on top of regular stuff like wolves. Is there an explanation other than laziness in art assets that Draenor creatures evolved the same way?
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Because addictive MMOs know they can get away with recycled content.
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Well the Frostwolves had to get their name from somewhere, right?
My only question with wolves is why do we use the Draenor wolf in BFA when a newer Azeroth wolf was introduced in Legion.
Didn’t the Titans influence Draenor too? That could be why.
Aggramar - Pretty much did a bandaid fix for Draenor compared to how hands on the Titans were on Azeroth. He just made a big stone thing to fight the giant everbloom monster that was sucking Draenor dry and left.
The new “wolf” model in legion is a Worg, not a Wolf
This has also always bothered me. There are some unique creatures like ravagers, nether rays, spore giants and those huge tripod things (think back to Zangarmarsh and how cool everything was there) but for the most part it was pigs, wolves, and other familiar creatures. And then they did it again in AU Draenor.
I do wish that Blizz had gone out of their way to make things feel a bit more alien.
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The real puzzler is figuring out where the Dragonmaw got their name from.
Similar species popping up on two titan-influenced worlds is one thing, but neither version of Draenor really had “dragons,” unless you count the store mount that appears like three times in AU Draenor.
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The Warcraft universe is a creationist universe, so there’s nothing impeding the same magic forces from creating the same creatures on different worlds.
In the Orcish tongue, the Dragonmaw Clan is called “Nelghor-Shomash”, which means “Cry of the Beasts”. They received their name due to their practice of taming Rylaks.
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Don’t know, maybe wolves came from Draenor in the first war with the orcs. All is possible in wow XD
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Likely there weren’t legion worgs with white fur?
Could be that some of the Animals you see on Azeroth are original to Draenor. The Orcs did invade Azeroth and could very well bring with them Draenor creatures and animals, just saying.
Also there are wolfs with no fangs which I believe are original to Azeroth.
There are Draenor Wolves with upside fangs and then there are Worgs with down fangs. - Three different species.
Really when you play for awhile, you notice recycled models here and there
While it may seem a tad bit disappointing at first, you could likely chalk it up to convergent evolution. Why are so many races with diverse evolutionary backgrounds bipedal? Why do most of them seem to have roughly the same number of eyes, noses, upper limbs and whatnot? If most of the life forms are DNA based, one might infer that there is a targeted set of characteristics that are favored by the base DNA itself rather than a true evolutionary path.
Either that or limited design resources. I prefer the former to the latter 
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Because it’s standard fantasy rules.
Same reason 99% of aliens are bipedal humanoid, or identical to humans
Always figured it was because the cosmic power wheel applied everywhere, so life just often creates similar creatures.
And the chimera are Rylaks. Totally different type of thing. (lol)