It’s probably because people would feel bad for killing them.
If this was considered for every animal in the game, quite a few other ones would have to become non-interactable, with only the “less beloved” ones remaining attackable…
A while ago, a user had these thoughts regarding the Immortal Pillars animals:
Sorry, I don’t know.
They also wrote Compendium entries for the flying birds, which are never interactable. I think the teams in charge of the different areas of making the units just did more than was required, maybe just in case it was needed.
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It looks like they did what FE did with Tale of the Dragon - put the native-language names in the history instead of scientific names - except in this case, the heading still says “scientific name”, and in a number of cases, the native name is the same as the unit name, so it’s pretty rubbish that they put so little effort in there. If they didn’t want to spend the man-hours coming up with the scientific names, they could have got AI to do it in one minute (not that I’m endorsing the use of AI).
that would have been way worse imo
Does Microsoft not pay them enough to update old maps 
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You need grounded things to hold the concept, otherwise is just madeup fantasy instead of mythology
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“Why are you complaining about Daenerys’ Starbucks cup in a show where magic and dragons exist?”
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Ideally you should be complaining about the last season as a whole.
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That’s a very common argument to make. “When Magic exists in a world, questioning the logic of said world makes no sense.”
That argument implies that fantasy works don’t, and cannot, have literary quality, and expecting coherency and consistency is contradictory to the premise, since the very fact that magic exists implies that the very foundation of the world doesn’t run on logic or realism.
What the argument dismisses, or outright doesn’t consider, is this:
-Magic follows rules too. Even if implicit ones. Not the same for every fantasy world, but clearly there. Therefore, people are right to point it out, when those rules are violated.
-If anything in a world with magic is implied to be, or outright stated to be, non-magical, it can be expected to behave in a non-magical way. Therefore, people are right to criticise, if this aspect of a magical world doesn’t conform to how we’d expect it to behave in our world.
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Thanks, I was not aware of that. One can access the Scarlet Macaw and Toucan texts in the compendium available from the main menu, but they forgot to do that for the other two birds…