User blog comment:OhJay/Shadow Beasts/@comment-5780397-20140624102342

The Shadow Beasts we got to know were all animals from the woods or the underbrush, so I think the others would be, too. Skunk (because of the color scheme he has in the 2011 anime), Frog/Bear (you can see claws when he attacks the Phantom Troupe), Bat, Viper (because his arms are restrained. Meerkat seems a good alternative, anyway, only its habitat is different, that's why I did not consider it. Not Snake, as there is one in the Zodiacs), and Stinging Caterpillar (you know, those caterpillars with poisonous spikes).