Critter

Critters are mobile non-player entities, typically small or non-predatory animals or vermin, intended primarily for ambiance. 
While critters are a kind of mobile object, in World of Warcraft, "mobs" differ from critters in that critters are primarily for ambiance, provide no direct experience and little or no loot, and are trivial to kill. There are subtle mechanical differences, such as critters cannot be targeted by use of the tab key.
== Characteristics of critters in World of Warcraft ==
* Critters have hit points.
** Abilities and effects that cause no damage will not kill a critter.
** Many critters have just one hit point and always die when hit by a damaging attack.
** Some critters have a few hit points and will survive a weak attack.
* Size is a poor indication of relative robustness.
** Many larger critters, such as deer and sheep, have one hit point.
** Squirrels, which are among the smaller critters, have eight hit points.
* Critters are (mostly) harmless and low level.
** Most will run in fear if they survive the first attack or are aggroed in some other way.
** Some critters, such as the rats in Deadmines and the Deeprun Tram, the Biletoads in Wailing Caverns, or Frogs (no, really!) will strike back at an attacker when aggroed. They do minimal damage.
** Players can use attacks or abilities that do not immediately deal damage to test critter reactions. 
* Unlike mobs, critters do not yield experience nor loot (with the exception of Giant Marsh Frog and Dig Rat). 
* Originally, critters such as sheep, rabbits, gazelles, and deer could be skinned. An undocumented change in patch 3.2.0 removed the ability to skin them.
* Predatory animal mobs like cats and wolves will often chase and kill prey critters. 
** Critters can also be killed by certain companions, such as Sleepy Willy and the Creepy Crate.
* Critters can be affected by various non-damaging effects, such as Polymorph, taunts, fear effects, and others.
** Glyph of Crittermorph increases Polymorph's duration to 24 hours when used on critters, and allows it to affect multiple critters simultaneously.
** Amusingly, sheep can be polymorphed into sheep. The visual effect looks like dust billowing from the sheep.
** Even when taunted, most critters will run away rather than attacking.
* Many critter models are available as companion pets. They might be captured via pet battles, purchased, or obtained by some other means.
* Many critters have a generic version and, in newer content, versions with more specific names. For example, Squirrel versus Grizzly Squirrel.
* Some critters represent a type of creature that is also represented by mobs. For example, spiders.
* Some critters are quest objectives or achievement objectives.
** Whenever a critter is the object of a quest or achievement, the name must match exactly.
== Achievements ==
Interacting with critters is the objective of the following achievements:
#Pest Control
== Notes ==
* Ironically, most of the "To All The Squirrels" achievements do not actually require the need to hug a Squirrel. However, killing a Squirrel is required for the achievement Pest Control.
* The Stonetalon Pass plateau in between Mulgore, Stonetalon Mountains, and Desolace is home to some particularly militaristic critters.
==Characteristics in previous Warcraft games==
* In Warcraft II and Warcraft III, if the player clicked on a critter in rapid succession a sufficient number of times, the critter would detonate in a large, bloody explosion.
* Critters varied depending on the current map tileset.
==List of critters==
The following is an incomplete list of critters.
*Critters marked with * are needed for the To All The Squirrels I've Loved Before achievement.
*Critters marked with ‡ are needed for the To All The Squirrels Who Shared My Life achievement.
*Critters marked with † are needed for the Pest Control achievement.
Critter 	Location 	Notes
† 	Durotar and Barrens 	
‡ 	Borean Tundra, Dragonblight and eastern Zul'Drak 	
Albatross	 	WC3 Only
Beetle 	Drak'Tharon Keep, Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj, Utgarde Keep 	
* 	Borean Tundra 	
‡ 	Borean Tundra 	
* 	Elwynn Forest, Eversong Woods (and Silvermoon City) 	Named cats can be found throughout Azeroth and Outland.
* 	Westfall, Southshore, Lower City and Far Watch Post 	
* 	Goldshire, Elwynn Forest, Southshore, Arathi Highlands 	
* 	Steamvaults, Ghostlands, Moa'ki Harbor 	
† 	The Nexus, The Oculus 	
* 	Most Human and Night Elf regions 	
† 	Utgarde Catacombs 	
* 	Shattrath City 	In the Lower City.
* 	Elwynn Forest 	NW edge of Eastvale Logging Camp
† 	Burning Steppes 	
‡ 	South of Daggercap Bay, Howling Fjord 	
† 	Howling Fjord 	
‡ 	Howling Fjord 	
* 	Zangarmarsh, Wailing Caverns, Un'Goro Crater 	
* 	The Barrens 	
‡ 	North Eastern Icecrown Glacier 	
† 	Halls of Stone, Halls of Lightning 	
‡ 	Grizzly Hills 	
* 	Durotar 	
 	Elwynn Forest, Westfall 	Typically found around Human settlements.
‡ 	Swamp of Sorrows 	
† 	Ghostlands, Naxxramas 	
‡ 	Searing Gorge and Burning Steppes 	
† 	Swamp of Sorrows 	
† 	Ghostlands, Naxxramas, Underbog 	
† 	Westfall, Grizzly Hills, Stonetalon Pass plateau 	
‡ 	Grizzly Hills and Howling Fjord 	
* 	Un'Goro Crater 	
 	 	WC3 only as a Critter.
* 	Mulgore, The Barrens, Westfall, Arathi Highlands 	In Westfall, look around the Dagger Hills
* 	Stonetalon Mountains, Hillsbrad Foothills, Stonetalon Pass plateau	By Mirkfallon Lake in Stone Talon.
† 	Common in many places around Azeroth 	
* 	Loch Modan, Dun Morogh, Wetlands 	In the Wetlands, there are many in the hills of Dun Algaz
† 	Razorfen Downs, The Barrens, Agmar's Hammer 	
 	Goblin areas 	
‡ 	Scalawag Point, Howling Fjord 	
 	Tidefury Cove, Darkspear Strand, Sar'theris Strand 	
† 	Hellfire Peninsula, Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj 	
* 	Hillsbrad Foothills, Elwynn Forest, Howling Fjord 	Common in settled verdant areas
‡ 	Sholazar Basin 	Sitting on the horns of the Rhinos
* 	Terokkar Forest, Azuremyst Isle 	
† 	Dustwallow Marsh 	
† 	Ghostlands, Azjol-Nerub, Terokkar Forest 	
* 	Elwynn Forest, Ashenvale, Tirisfal Glades 	Common in forested areas
* 	Borean Tundra 	In the Flood Plains.
* 	In corrals on Orc farms in Durotar and The Barrens 	
* 	Dustwallow Marsh, Underbog, Darnassus 	In most areas with ponds, swamps.
‡ 	Borean Tundra and Dragonblight 	
† 	The Underbelly 	
 	 	Can only be seen around a Brewfest site and only if you are inebriated.
† 	Zul'Drak 	
 
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